Wagtail Nest: Maintaining Community Packages Together

At Wagtail Space NL 2022, We launched Wagtail Nest. It is a community-driven initiative to give third-party Wagtail packages a safe and sustainable home. Many great add-ons risk becoming unmaintained when their original authors step away. Wagtail Nest provides continuity: shared maintenance, regular releases, and a clear path for packages to stay alive and useful.

In this talk I’ll share:

• The origin story of Wagtail Nest (and why we needed it).
• How the platform works today and what packages already live there.
• Lessons learned from community-led maintenance.
• What’s next: growing the ecosystem together, and how you can get involved.

Participants will leave with a clear picture of how Wagtail Nest makes the ecosystem stronger, how they can move their packages into the Nest, and how they can contribute to keeping the Wagtail community vibrant.

Learn more about Wagtail Nest here: https://github.com/wagtail-nest

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