RFC 90: Sustainability roadmap

[thibaudcolas]

View the roadmap in HTML. Share this roadmap with a permanent link: wagtail.org/sustainability/sustainability-roadmap/

This addresses the two components of the Sustainability roadmap item from the Wagtail roadmap in preparation for the v6.0 release in February:

Extensive review of the Web Sustainability Guidelines, with a particular focus on applicability for the Wagtail CMS and Wagtail websites. Refinement of a potential program of sustainability improvements to Wagtail, with the view to reduce its carbon footprint.

There is a bit more to do on sharing our review of WSG and adding items within this document, but the high-level information is there.

Reviewing this

For people reviewing this – there are a few things I would recommend:

1. Take the Green Software for Practitioners course if you haven’t already. If you don’t want to register for the course and get a certificate, all the content is available publicly too.
2. Suggest as many possible improvements as possible across all three sections. I would say the more the merrier.
3. Be particularly critical of the "top 3" / "top 6" improvements. The point here is to decide on what we’d do in the very near future, so we want to make sure those are the right things to focus on.

I’m also very interested in feedback on the process here, as this is all pretty new to us and there aren’t many projects with this kind of sustainability angle, nor Wagtail contributors with this expertise.

More information

• Wagtail Sustainability statement
• Spreadsheet: Wagtail websites sustainability improvements
• Sustainability considerations for Wagtail sites #38
• Web Sustainability Guidelines 1.0
• Greener coding - Making a 'gold' reference configuration with the Wagtail bakery app #8843
• Google Summer of Code 2023 #59