# Django 1.8.18.dev20170123152445 documentation

# Meta-documentation and miscellany

Documentation that we can’t find a more organized place for. Like that drawer in your kitchen with the scissors, batteries, duct tape, and other junk.

- API stability
  - What “stable” means
  - Stable APIs
  - Exceptions
- Design philosophies
  - Overall
  - Models
  - Database API
  - URL design
  - Template system
  - Views
  - Cache Framework
- Third-party distributions of Django
  - For distributors