Django Fellow Report - Natalia - 2026

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Week ending 2026-01-04 (Week 01)

New year , new report thread

This was a quiet week work-wise as I was fully off for the New Year period. I hosted family at home for the week, which was both demanding and rewarding, and I am now back and fully recharged.

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Week ending 2026-01-11 (Week 02)

With the recent bugfix release for 6.0.1 and 5.2.10 made by Jacob , the checklist generator was exercised again during the release process and confirmed useful. With agreement from the Fellows, and support from our Board Liaison and Line Manager, we will now run a shared instance for release planning and coordination . In the coming weeks, I will work on integrating it into djangoproject.com’s admin, building on the existing releases app.

Triaged

• #36841 (Add multipart_parser_class attribute to HttpRequest for pluggable multipart parsing) – Django - Add multipart_parser_class attribute to HttpRequest for pluggable multipart parsing (accepted)
• #36843 (RenamePermission might operate on unrelated models) – Django - RenamePermission might operate on unrelated models (accepted)
• #36848 (Documentation doesn't directly mention that BadRequest is handled by handler400) – Django - Documentation doesn’t directly mention that BadRequest is handled by handler400 (accepted)
• #36849 (Moved GEOS Error Messages to Exceptions) – Django - Moved GEOS Error Messages to Exceptions (accepted)

Reviewed

• Fixed #36825 -- Apply CSP nonces to Django admin external scripts. by kundan223 · Pull Request #20494 · django/django · GitHub - Fixed #36825 – Apply CSP nonces to Django admin external scripts.
• Updated Urdu translations by izan-majeed · Pull Request #20417 · django/django · GitHub - Updated Urdu translations
• https://github.com/django/django/pull/20339 - Fixed #36793, Refs #27489 – Fixed a test and improved duplicate-permission handling on model renames.
• Fixed #36843, #36793 -- Reverted "Fixed #27489 -- Renamed permissions upon model renaming in migrations." by jacobtylerwalls · Pull Request #20497 · django/django · GitHub - Fixed #36843, #36793 – Reverted “Fixed #27489 – Renamed permissions upon model renaming in migrations.”
• Made release test script use a random available port. by jacobtylerwalls · Pull Request #20501 · django/django · GitHub - Reduced likelihood of port conflicts in release test script.
• Fixed typo in help text. by jacobtylerwalls · Pull Request #28 · nessita/checklist-generator · GitHub - Fixed typo in help text.
• Refs #36769 -- Raised SuspiciousOperation for unexpected nested tags in XML Deserializer. by jacobtylerwalls · Pull Request #20409 · django/django · GitHub - Refs #36769 – Raised SuspiciousOperation for unexpected nested tags in XML Deserializer.

Authored

• Relocated content from docs/topics/external-packages.txt where appropriate. by nessita · Pull Request #20507 · django/django · GitHub - Relocated content from docs/topics/external-packages.txt where appropriate.
• Extended the GitHub pull request template to require AI assistance disclosure. by nessita · Pull Request #19594 · django/django · GitHub - Extended the GitHub pull request template to require AI assistance disclosure.
  • Restarted work addressing all pending feedback, and merged into main.

Security

• Revisited existing in-progress PRs and updated them.
• Followed up on pending triage, and did some new reports triage.

Other/Misc

• Fellows 1-1, sync after vacations.
• Attended DSF Office Hours.
• CoC monthly meeting.
• Monthly meeting with the Steering Council.

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Week ending 2026-01-18 (Week 03)

Alongside the work detailed below, I continued progressing the integration of the checklist-generator app into djangoproject.com’s admin , with a focus on making it fit naturally into the existing apps/project. I also spent time on a specific but meaningful optimization to migration graph planning, which led to a particularly engaging round of triage and review. In parallel, Ops work also moved forward. Together with Tim , we made solid progress on the Ops Team charter, and with Baptiste we walked through the website deployment process, which was both productive and helped identify concrete follow-ups.

Triaged

• #36859 (SimpleTestCase.assertContains can't be called multiple times on a streaming response) – Django - SimpleTestCase.assertContains can’t be called multiple times on a streaming response (accepted)
• #36839 (Renaming of content types on RenameModel operations silently passes when duplicates are found) – Django - Renaming of content types on RenameModel operations silently passes when duplicates are found (needsinfo first, then accepted)
• #36866 (Optimize template compilation with intelligent caching for repeated renders) – Django - Optimize template compilation with intelligent caching for repeated renders (needsnewfeatureprocess)
• #36867 (Optimize template compilation with intelligent caching for repeated renders) – Django - Optimize template compilation with intelligent caching for repeated renders (duplicated)
• #36868 (Bugs is normalize() function) – Django - Bugs is normalize() function (invalid)
• #36869 (Optimise migration graph planning) – Django - Optimise migration graph planning (accepted)

Reviewed

• https://github.com/django/django/pull/20409 - Refs #36769 – Raised SuspiciousOperation for unexpected nested tags in XML Deserializer.
• Fixed #36869 -- Optimized MigrationGraph._generate_plan() with set-based membership check. by jfysh-kraken · Pull Request #20543 · django/django · GitHub - Fixed #36869 – Optimized MigrationGraph._generate_plan() with set-based membership check.
• https://github.com/django/django/pull/20381 - Added prepare-commit-msg hook to check commit prefixes.

Authored

• #36862 (Clarify RemoteUserMiddleware usage and deployment requirements under ASGI) – Django - Clarify RemoteUserMiddleware usage and deployment requirements under ASGI

Security

• Deep dive on ASGI handling of incoming headers following duplicated reports that resulted in the ticket created above.

Other/Misc

• Biweekly meeting with Fellows and Board Liaison (Jeff Triplett).
• Biweekly meeting with Fellows and Line Manager (Andrew Godwin).
• Fellows weekly sync.
• Monthly Ops call.
  • The Ops Team charter was reviewed and progressed with the guide of @CodenameTim (thanks for driving this! ).
  • Later in the week, Jacob and I had a dedicated session with @bmispelon to learn how to deploy the djangoproject.com website. Thanks Baptiste!
• Attended DSF Office Hours.