Not much going on, “just” the 6.1 Feature Freeze / alpha release, a sprint at PyCon, and a kickoff meeting with Google Summer of Code participants & mentors.
| Misc | |
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| Fellows sync | |
| Engaged in security reports | |
| GSoC kickoff meeting | |
| Released 6.1 alpha |
After a Monday holiday in the US, I spent a week focusing on contributions from the prior week’s PyCon sprint.
| Triaged | |
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| #37125 (Use __new__ to sanitize TaskResult instead of __post_init__ to half memory usage) – Django | accepted → needsinfo |
| #37128 (Include setUpTestData as a way to speed up tests) – Django | accepted |
| #35615 (Add ability to render request.user in templates when async is used) – Django | accepted → wontfix |
| #37123 (Wrong translation id used in actions-submit (actions.html)) – Django | invalid |
| #36888 (acreate method doesn't call asave) – Django | accepted → someday/maybe |
| Misc | |
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| Fellows sync | |
| Engaged in security reports | |
| 1-1 with GSoC mentee (Pravin) | |
| Reviewed metadata for June security releases |
A highlight this week was landing the listurls command modeled on django-extensions.
| Misc | |
|---|---|
| Fellows sync | |
| Engaged in security reports | |
| Monthly steering council | |
| Monthly board liaison checkin | |
| Line manager (Andrew Godwin) checkin |
In this four-day week (I headed out Friday for a college reunion), everything got a little bit better. First, check out @blighj’s estimate showing that collectstatic’s import statement detection reliability (needed to rewrite URLs) improves in Django 6.1 from 88% to 99%. Meanwhile @felixxm is stress-testing database defaults and landing fixes needed for using Django 6.1’s UUID4()/UUID7() functions. Finally, we made the test client more friendly for third-party permission packages like django-guardian and django-rules. @sage also spotted a breakage in DRF in the upcoming Django 6.1 beta, since Wagtail tests against Django’s main branch. I expect the fix to land before the beta is even out. Be like wagtail and test main!
| Misc | |
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| Fellows sync | |
| Engaged in security reports | |
| 1-1 with GSoC mentee (Pravin) | |
| Adjusted forum CSS | |
| Monthly ops team office hours | |
| Monthly security team meeting |
Yes! Test main as @carltongibson as often said, too.
This is the way! 
Tended to a flurry of fixes before the non-release-blocker bugfix freeze for Django 6.1 in a few days. Also chipped away at some performance improvements for ASGI projects using sync middleware.
| Misc | |
|---|---|
| Fellows sync | |
| Engaged in security reports | |
| 1-1 with GSoC mentee (Pravin) | |
| Line manager (Andrew Godwin) chat | |
Early report before heading out for a week of holiday.
| Discussed | |
|---|---|
| Discussed, drafted inquires about CVSS metric definitions |
| Misc | |
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| Fellows sync | |
| Engaged in security reports | |
| 1-1 with GSoC mentee (Pravin) | |
| Released 6.1 beta | |
| Meeting with Oracle re: Test Pilot program |
In addition to issuing security releases this week, almost all of my week was spent productively engaging in multiple security issues. (Sometimes one comes in that really deserves extra time.)
Beyond that, I put attention into the composite fields Google Summer of Code project and landed an improvement to import_string() to reliably handle modules.
| Triaged | |
|---|---|
| #37203 (inspectdb doesn't account for normalized field names when building CompositePrimaryKey) – Django | accepted |
| Misc | |
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| Fellows sync | |
| Engaged in security reports | |
| Monthly steering council meeting | |
| Monthly Security Team meeting | |
| Board liaison checkin | |
| 1-1 with GSoC mentee (Pravin) | |
| Issued security releases |
Another week largely focused on a couple of security reports that deserved sustained attention.
| Misc | |
|---|---|
| Fellows sync | |
| Engaged in security reports | |
| Monthly ops meeting | |
| 1-1 with GSoC mentee (Pravin) | |
| Added James Bligh to Triage & Review Team | |
| Oracle Test Pilot onboarding meeting |
Like last week, I focused almost all of my attention on improving our patches for the same two pending security reports. One reporter thanked us for our professional handling and brought a smile to my face when adding, “as I am sure you are getting completely slop cannoned all the way down.” 
More steady progress reviewing the GSoC work on expressions in SQL FROM clauses, too.
| Triaged | |
|---|---|
| #37227 (test_double_replaced_migrations_are_checked_correctly fails on CI system) – Django | duplicate |
| Misc | |
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| Fellows sync | |
| Engaged in security reports | |
| Released Django 6.1rc1 | |
| 1-1 with GSoC mentee (Pravin) |
Highlights this week included clearing release blockers for 6.1 and making the parallel test runner more fault tolerant.
| Triaged | |
|---|---|
| #36888 (acreate method doesn't call asave) – Django | Someday/Maybe → wontfix |
| #37237 (Slow queryset building when using __in lookup with a large list of values against a related field) – Django | accepted |
| Misc | |
|---|---|
| Fellows sync | |
| Engaged in security reports | |
| Fellows line manager (Andrew Godwin) chat |
Django 6.1 is out! Then, there was some terrific cross-pollination between the Google Summer of Code work on multi-column subqueries and an improvement for search performance on djangoproject.com where I was able to try it out.
| Triaged | |
|---|---|
| https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/37246 | accepted |
| https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/37248 | accepted |
| https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/11383 | accepted → fixed |
| https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/37264 | accepted |
| https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/37266 | accepted |
| Misc | |
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| Fellows sync | |
| Engaged in security reports | |
| Monthly steering council meeting | |
| Released Django 6.1 |
This week the main focus was sweeping up after the 6.1 release with some release blocker fixes. Other work around GIS, caching, and the GSoC project on multi-column subqueries continued apace 
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| Discussed | |
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| Oracle Test Pilot integration | |
| #37268 (django 6.1 breaks Media objects with reverse_lazy entries) – Django |
| Misc | |
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| Fellows sync | |
| Engaged in security reports | |
| Monthly ops meeting | |
| Monthly security team meeting | |
| Monthly board liaison checkin |
Early report before heading to DjangoCon US.
| Misc | |
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| Fellows sync | |
| Engaged in security reports | |
| 1-1 with GSoC mentee (Pravin) |
I had a rejuvenating week attending, presenting at, and sprinting during DjangoCon US. I’m still relatively new to this community, so I’m still allowed to be impressed with everyone’s gracious and welcoming attitudes. A smattering of things falling under the usual categories include:
| Misc | |
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| Fellows sync | |
| Engaged in security reports | |
| DjangoCon US: presented, paired with new contributors, attended open spaces, and much more! |
A cluster of fixes shipped in Django 6.1.1 this week. Outside of that, a week furiously closing open loops before more developer sprints later this month.
| Misc | |
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| Fellows sync | |
| Meeting with board liaison | |
| Engaged in security reports | |
| Meeting with Oracle re: Test Pilot, and configuration of a sandbox repository | |
| Released Django 6.1.1 | |
| Fixed failing Jenkins triggers |