Thank you @nessita, @sarahboyce, and the many others who worked hard to make my first week so smooth!
| Triaged | |
|---|---|
| https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/36508 | duplicate → accepted |
| https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/36574 | invalid |
| https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/36573 | invalid |
| Misc | |
|---|---|
| - Onboarding! | |
| - Regular meetings with fellows, board liaison, line manager, ops team | |
| - Set up test project | |
| - Engaged in security reports |
Monday was Labor Day in the US 
| Triaged | |
|---|---|
| #36597 (Email docs incorrectly use :meth: for functions) – Django | Accepted |
| Discussed | |
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| #36520 (Performance Regression in parse_header_params) – Django | |
| #35667 (Switch usage to skip_file_prefixes instead of stacklevel when it makes sense) – Django |
| Misc | |
|---|---|
| - Fellows sync | |
| - Shadowed security release | |
| - Steering Council meeting | |
| - Engaged in security reports |
Light week on GitHub, as my focus was on meeting people, attending talks, and sprinting at DjangoCon US!
| Triaged | |
|---|---|
| #36486 (Add MongoDB Drivers to the List of 3rd Party Database Backends) – Django | Someday/Maybe → Accepted |
| https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/36605 | Accepted |
| Misc/Other | |
|---|---|
| Engaged in security reports | |
| Fellows sync | |
| Conferred with and mentored sprint attendees, including several first contributions |
Feature freeze week brought some excitement with last-minute tidy-ups to land for the tasks interface and for refreshing model fields assigned expressions on save(). Now’s the time to run project test suites against the 6.0 alpha and report issues!
| Triaged | |
|---|---|
| #36606 (Optimize QuerySet.values_list(flat=True) with no fields) – Django | Accepted |
| https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/34521 | Accepted |
| Discussed | |
|---|---|
| https://github.com/django/django/pull/18627 | |
| #36611 (Model validation of constraint involving ForeignObject considers only first column) – Django |
| Misc/Other | |
|---|---|
| Engaged in security reports | |
| Fellows sync | |
| Familiarized myself with checklist generator for releases | |
| Supported 6.0a1 release |
| Triaged | |
|---|---|
| https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/36617 | invalid → duplicate |
| https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/36618 | accepted |
| #35729 (Subclasses cannot opt out of natural key serialization) – Django | invalid → accepted |
| https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/36623 | accepted |
| #36624 (Drop support for MySQL < 8.4.) – Django | accepted |
| https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/36626 | wontfix |
| Misc | |
|---|---|
| Fellows sync | |
| Line manager, board liaison meetings | |
| Prepared security release | |
| Engaged in security reports |
Security topics dominated the week: security releases on Wednesday (thanks Natalia for answering all my questions!), onboarding for becoming a CVE Numbering Authority, and significant engagement on reports.
Outside of security, a highlight was reviewing work to add support for ArrayField indexes in QuerySet.update(). Afterward I found a review of a prior attempt. Checking the “answer key”, I was relieved to see I was broadly in line with the prior comments. 
Thanks to Carlton and Will for having me on Django Chat. 
| Misc | |
|---|---|
| Met with Lilian, Sarah, and Natalia to exchange knowledge about prior work leveraging Trac data on djangoproject.com | |
| Fellows sync | |
| Issued security releases | |
| Prepared questions and reviewed material for CNA meeting | |
| Debugged do_django_release.sh variance on MacOS | |
| Prepared homework exercises for CNA onboarding submission |
Enjoyed having a chance to work closely with the participants at Django on the Med this week in Palafrugell. Got a bunch of ORM questions answered in order to advance some reviews, and did an in-person review of the database-level delete behavior feature (another 6.1 headline feature on the verge of a merge)!
Otherwise a quieter week on Trac & GitHub given the travel days.
| Misc | |
|---|---|
| Engaged in security reports |
I helped land two major 6.1 features this week: model field fetching modes, and database-level delete options. I also advanced some reviews for Djangonaut Space participants 
| Misc | |
|---|---|
| Monthly ops meeting | |
| Fellows sync | |
| Engaged in security reports | |
A highlight this week was looking at @cliff688’s excellent work on the JSONNull expression that will make filtering for and persisting None in JSONField much easier to reason about.
Beyond that, another week with significant energy devoted to engaging with security reports.
| Misc | |
|---|---|
| Fellows board liason, line manager meetings | |
| Fellows sync | |
| Engaged in security reports | |
| Update our draft disclosure policy (CNA numbering authority) |
This week we landed the JSONNull expression I mentioned last week. We also landed a follow-up to the database delete behavior feature to add support in inspectdb.
| Misc | |
|---|---|
| Fellows sync | |
| Engaged in security reports |
This week we landed a migrations fix that prevents flaky CircularDependencyErrors when squashed replacements are in play. If you haven’t tried squashing migrations in a while, check out main and give it another go!
We also fixed an unreleased regression in the urlize template filter–big thanks to Mehraz Hossain Rumman for testing the beta. (Are you the next tester to report a regression before 6.0 final?)
| Misc | |
|---|---|
| Check-in with board liason | |
| Check-in with steering council | |
| Fellows sync | |
| Engaged in security reports | |
| CVE management onboarding |
More than usual coordination with other python projects this week! I opened issues in coverage, Sphinx, and Python itself while investigating Django tickets and CI pipelines.
| Discussed | |
|---|---|
| https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/should-we-adjust-djangos-versioning-to-use-a-form-of-calver | |
| Migrate to renovate · Issue #2323 · django/djangoproject.com · GitHub |
| Misc | |
|---|---|
| Fellows sync | |
| Ops monthly | |
| Engaged in security reports |
I’m pretty excited about the Google Summer of Code-sponsored improvement to the contribution and review process we landed this week – coverage diffs on pull requests!
| Misc | |
|---|---|
| Biweekly board liaison chat | |
| Biweekly line manager chat | |
| Fellows sync | |
| Engaged in security reports | |
| Added GitHub Actions linter (zizmor) |
Short week for US Thanksgiving. Advanced some fixes for the next patch release of 5.2.
| Triaged | |
|---|---|
| #31387 (Document that BASE_DIR is not a setting) – Django | needsinfo |
| #36752 (SMTP backend crashes on invalid email addresses such as “to@”) – Django | duplicate |
| Misc | |
|---|---|
| Fellows sync | |
| Engaged in security reports |
An exciting week with Django 6.0 released and several security issues put to bed. Another highlight was merging Rim Choi’s work making custom user models work better with fixture serialization.
| Misc | |
|---|---|
| Steering council meeting | |
| Security team meeting | |
| Board liaison chat | |
| Line manager chat | |
| Fellows sync | |
| Engaged in security reports |
With the help of multiple reviewers, we landed @Lily-Foote’s work adding cross-database UUID4 and UUID7 functions, making it even easier to use database-generated defaults with the ORM. It was also satisfying to squash another unintended side effect from upgrading Django’s CI to Python 3.14 (read up on the new forkserver default if you’re a multiprocessing user!)
| Misc | |
|---|---|
| monthly ops | |
| fellows sync | |
| engaged in security reports |
Security reports abated, so I chipped away at the review queue this week.
| Discussed | |
|---|---|
| 'Rendering model states... DONE', fails |
| Misc | |
|---|---|
| Fellows sync | |
| Board liaison meeting | |
| engaged in security reports |
Snuck in one day of work before traveling 
| Misc | |
|---|---|
| engaged in security reports |
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