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celery/django-celery
Old Celery integration project for Django
django-celery is the old glue package that wired Celery into Django before Celery 4.x absorbed Django support natively. It provides a Django ORM result backend, Django admin integration for tasks and periodic task management, and management commands that wrap Celery's CLI. If you're on Celery 5.x, you don't need this — Celery ships first-class Django support out of the box.
The Django admin integration for periodic tasks (via `djcelery.schedulers.DatabaseScheduler`) is still genuinely useful — letting non-engineers manage cron-style schedules through the admin without touching code or config files. The ORM-backed result backend is simple and works without Redis or RabbitMQ, which reduces infrastructure for small projects. The test runner contrib (`djcelery.contrib.test_runner`) sets ALWAYS_EAGER automatically, which saves boilerplate in test setup.
This package is explicitly for Celery 3.x–4.x only and the README opens with a request for a sponsor to update it — that's the project admitting it's unmaintained for modern use. Anyone on Celery 5.x (released 2020) should not install this; the official docs already cover Django integration without it. The single migration file and no subsequent migrations mean the DB schema hasn't evolved in years. The `celerycam`, `celerymon`, and `djcelerymon` management commands reference tooling that was deprecated and removed from Celery long ago, so half the management commands in the tree are dead weight.