Week ending 2026-09-27 (Week 39)
When @pauloxnet wasn’t otherwise showing us around Abruzzo last week at Django on the Med 
, I had the pleasure of supporting a number of groups there, spanning:
- frontend topics (subresource integrity and importmaps)
- backend topics (temporal constraints and
django-subatomic)
- performance topics (a benchmarking group kicked off, and @carltongibson got me to commit to auditing our free-threading readiness)
- documentation topics, and …, and …, and …
Special thanks to @annalauraw and @charettes for taking up my suggestion to pair on some delicate issues around NULL handling in the ORM. They each have PRs I’m excited to review, and the three of us now have more context for tackling whatever comes next in this area.
Some other things in the usual categories got folded in around the travel:
- Engaged in security reports and drafted a fix for a confirmed one
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Week ending 2026-10-18 (Week 42)
Chasing a forum thread this week led to merging a nice performance improvement for queries on m2m fields. Other highlights included spotting final tweaks needed in the multiline template tags support and drafting a security fix that needed sustained attention.
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| Fellows sync |
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| Engaged in security reports |
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| Fellows line manager checkin |
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| Monthly security team meeting |
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| First triage & review team meeting |
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| Informational meeting with Sovereign Tech Agency |
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Week ending 2026-10-25 (Week 43)
Fittingly enough for a week when security had high mindshare everywhere, I spent a lot of time developing security patches. Still, before sending off this report I was able to merge the initial support for the HTTP QUERY method and approve Sarah’s final tweaks on the multiline template tags feature!
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| Fellows sync |
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| Engaged in security reports |
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| Fellows line manager checkin |
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Week ending 2026-11-01 (Week 44)
The fellows met with finalists for the Executive Director position this week. In addition to participating in that interview process, I finalized the patches for the November security releases, including sending prenotifications, and then turned next to drafting two patches for the next set of security releases. That left not so much time for reviews on the public backlog, but I did manage to squeeze in a re-review for a Djangonaut Space participant.
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| Fellows sync |
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| Engaged in security reports |
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| Executive director interviews and debriefs |
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| Sent security prenotifications |
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| Configured a GitHub Actions policy for django/django |
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Week ending 2026-11-08 (Week 45)
After release blocker & security work, I managed a small “Trac sprint” to review Sarah’s changes to improve triage workflows as well as this year’s Google Summer of Code project on adding a dark mode. I also followed up with the GDAL maintainers on findings that fell out of the security releases. And we renamed the main command django!
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| Fellows sync |
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| Engaged in security reports |
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| Issued security releases |
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| Monthly steering council meeting |
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| Chat with line manager (Andrew Godwin) |
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| Rotated Oracle Test Pilot access token |
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| Monthly board liaison checkin |
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| Added Johannes to Triage & Review Team |
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| Fixed duplicate ReadTheDocs builds |
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