Sustainability roadmap

[thibaudcolas]

Summary

As a follow-up to Sustainability considerations for Wagtail sites #38, a review of possible improvements to Wagtail that we could integrate on our roadmap in the future. In particular with the view to learn from Web Sustainability Guidelines 1.0.

Intended outcome

• 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.

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

[thibaudcolas]

First draft for anyone interested in progress: wagtail/rfcs#90

[thibaudcolas]

Closing this as we’ve done good first and second drafts in wagtail/rfcs#90 – there’s still plenty of reviewing and validation to do but it’s not particularly dependent on any one release anymore.