Starter kit relaunch
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Description
Overhaul of the wagtail start support for custom templates and the news template for higher usability and maintainability.
Intended outcome
- Simpler support for multiple starter kits
- Tooling to guarantee starter kits are always up-to-date with latest releases
- Higher usability for developers creating new Wagtail projects
- Better maintainability of official starter templates
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Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reading the existing wagtail start support and the linked start command DX improvements issue (#14350), then review the Wagtail news template and the starter-template guidance. Define how multiple starter kits, update guarantees, and improved project-creation usability should work; done requires an agreed design and implementation plan for the overhaul.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Domain
- cli, tooling
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100