Hi everyone,

I wanted to open a small discussion around the idea of moving Django REST Framework’s linting setup to Ruff, mainly to understand if maintainers think this direction makes sense.

Right now DRF uses a combination of:

• Flake8 (with multiple plugins)
• isort
• pyupgrade
• several pre-commit hooks

Ruff can cover most of these in a single tool, which could simplify configuration and speed up linting in both local development and CI.

This is not a proposal for a PR yet, especially because a full migration would create a large diff, and I don’t want to do anything without maintainers agreeing on the idea first. At this point, I’m just trying to understand:

• Would the team be open to considering Ruff at some point?
• Are there concerns around the impact or the migration path?
• Is keeping the current Flake8-based setup preferred?

I’m happy to help or prepare a draft plan if the idea seems useful, but only if maintainers feel this is a direction worth exploring.

Would love to hear your thoughts!