Django Fellow Report - Natalia - 2026

Week ending 2026-01-04 (Week 01)

New year :two: :six:, new report thread :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. :ocean::house_with_garden: :woman_juggling:

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Week ending 2026-01-11 (Week 02)

With the recent bugfix :bug: release for 6.0.1 and 5.2.10 made by Jacob :mage:, 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 :clipboard: :person_juggling:. In the coming weeks, I will work on integrating it into djangoproject.com’s admin, building on the existing releases app.

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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.

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 :clipboard:, with a focus on making it fit naturally into the existing apps/project. I also spent time on a specific but meaningful optimization :high_speed_train: 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 :teacher:, we made solid progress on the Ops Team charter, and with Baptiste :mage: we walked through the website deployment process, which was both productive and helped identify concrete follow-ups.

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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! :heart_exclamation:).
    • Later in the week, Jacob and I had a dedicated session with @bmispelon to learn how to deploy the djangoproject.com website. Thanks Baptiste! :heart_exclamation:
  • Attended DSF Office Hours.
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