Django Channels
===============

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Channels loads into Django as a pluggable app to bring WebSocket, long-poll HTTP,
task offloading and other asynchrony support to your code, using familiar Django
design patterns and a flexible underlying framework that lets you not only
customize behaviours but also write support for your own protocols and needs.

This is still **beta** software: the API is mostly settled, but might change
a bit as things develop. Once we hit ``1.0``, it will be stablized and a
deprecation policy will come in.

Documentation, installation and getting started instructions are at
http://channels.readthedocs.org

Support can be obtained either here via issues, or in the ``#django-channels``
channel on Freenode.

You can install channels from PyPI as the ``channels`` package.
You'll likely also want to ``asgi_redis`` to provide the Redis channel layer.
See our `installation <http://channels.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installation.html>`_
and `getting started <http://channels.readthedocs.io/en/latest/getting-started.html>`_ docs for more.


Contributing
------------

To learn more about contributing, please `read our contributing docs <http://channels.readthedocs.io/en/latest/contributing.html>`_.


Maintenance and Security
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To report security issues, please contact security@djangoproject.com. For GPG
signatures and more security process information, see
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/internals/security/.

To report bugs or request new features, please open a new GitHub issue. For
larger discussions, please post to the
`django-developers mailing list <https://groups.google.com/d/forum/django-developers>`_.

Django Core Shepherd: Andrew Godwin <andrew@aeracode.org>

Maintenance team:

* Andrew Godwin <andrew@aeracode.org>
* Steven Davidson
* Jeremy Spencer

If you are interested in joining the maintenance team, please
`read more about contributing <http://channels.readthedocs.io/en/latest/contributing.html>`_
and get in touch!


Other Projects
--------------

The Channels project is made up of several packages; the others are:

 * `Daphne <https://github.com/django/daphne/>`_, the HTTP and Websocket termination server
 * `asgiref <https://github.com/django/asgiref/>`_, the base ASGI library/memory backend
 * `asgi_redis <https://github.com/django/asgi_redis/>`_, the Redis channel backend
 * `asgi_ipc <https://github.com/django/asgi_ipc/>`_, the POSIX IPC channel backend