Django Fellow Report - Jacob - 2025

Django Internals
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Week ending 2025-11-16 (Week 46)

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.

Triaged
#36718 (Enable JSON negative indexing for Oracle 21c+ using [last-N]) – Django accepted
#36719 (django.core.files.storage.base.Storage.get_available_name and get_alternative_name assumes that filenames contain only one dot: the dot of the extension.) – Django duplicate
#35818 (Failing to save file with long names containing dots) – Django wontfix → accepted
#36720 (Printing how many tests found when running tests) – Django worksforme
#36722 (MySQL backend raises error when selecting 0 using an expression targeting an autofield.) – Django accepted
#36725 (Add documentation for HTML form field equivalents to Django form fields) – Django wontfix
#36711 (Make createsuperuser in non-interactive mode observe AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS) – Django wontfix
https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/25177 invalid
#36730 (Model validation of constraints fails for *excluded* ForeignKeys referenced by attname) – Django accepted
https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/36731 wontfix
#36733 (Fix unescaped attributes in Stylesheet.__str__) – Django accepted
https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/36732 accepted
Reviewed
Fixes #36590 - subclasses of BaseCache should use specialized implementation of methods for async version by eevelweezel · Pull Request #19840 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36053 -- Corrected DOM structure for FilteredSelectMultiple widget label in admin by DaniFornons · Pull Request #20075 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36712 -- Added inspect.signature to avoid type and value errors by AugustoPontes1 · Pull Request #20069 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36724 -- Removed broken 'for' attribute from the legend tag by varunkasyap · Pull Request #20080 · django/django · GitHub
https://github.com/django/django/pull/20009
https://github.com/django/django/pull/18934
Fixed #36730 -- Fixed constraint validation crash for excluded FK attnames. by adamchainz · Pull Request #20087 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #26379 - Documented that first filter() chained to a RelatedManager is sticky. by annalauraw · Pull Request #20085 · django/django · GitHub
Refs #35381 -- Made JSONNull deconstruct using convenient import path. by cliffordgama · Pull Request #20071 · django/django · GitHub
https://github.com/django/django/pull/19947
Refs #24928 -- Added introspection support for PostgreSQL HStoreField. by felixxm · Pull Request #20063 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36723 -- Removed logic for repositioning FilteredSelectMultiple help text. by varunkasyap · Pull Request #20077 · django/django · GitHub
Fixed #36141 -- Checked for applied replaced migrations recursively. by georgi-yanchev · Pull Request #20094 · django/django · GitHub
Authored
#36723 (Dead JS code attempting to reposition FilteredSelectMultiple widget) – Django
#36724 (BoundField adds invalid "for" attribute on <legend> tags) – Django
Refs #35844 -- Checked for forkserver mode in runtests.py with --selenium and --parallel. by jacobtylerwalls · Pull Request #20082 · django/django · GitHub
Anticipated timeline for next release with docutils 0.22 compatibility · sphinx-doc · Discussion #14055 · GitHub
3.14: KeyError in `sysmon_branch_either` after use of `except*` · Issue #2086 · coveragepy/coveragepy · GitHub
`inspect.getfullargspec` isn't ready for deferred evaluation of annotations · Issue #141560 · python/cpython · GitHub
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
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