Week ending 2026-03-22 (Week 12)
A significant portion of this week was dedicated to security work (yes, again 
). As usual, details here are intentionally kept at a high level, but the time went into triaging new reports, progressing in-flight likely confirmed issues, validating proposed fixes, and coordinating next steps with the team. One additional challenge worth noting is the volume of near-duplicate reports; beyond triage, this often requires careful comparison across long submissions to identify 
what is actually new or meaningfully different.
Triaged
- #36909 (Avoid using context.request directly in querystring template tag) – Django - Avoid using context.request directly in querystring template tag (retriaged to needsinfo)
Reviewed
- Skipped check_commit_messages action on forks. by jacobtylerwalls · Pull Request #20922 · django/django · GitHub - Skipped check_commit_messages action on forks.
- Corrected signature for EmailMessage.message() in docs. by medmunds · Pull Request #20737 · django/django · GitHub - Corrected signature for EmailMessage.message() in docs.
- Removed reference to spatialreference.org being a Django website. by smithdc1 · Pull Request #20924 · django/django · GitHub - Removed reference to spatialreference.org being a Django website.
- Fixed #36859: Added support for calling assertContains multiple times… by bmispelon · Pull Request #20527 · django/django · GitHub - Fixed #36859 – Made assertContains and assertNotContains idempotent for streaming responses.
- Refs #470 -- Fixed further field_defaults test failures due to year-end boundary conditions. by jacobtylerwalls · Pull Request #20502 · django/django · GitHub - Refs #470 – Fixed further field_defaults test failures due to year-end boundary conditions.
Authored
- (Disabled) Automated reviews in the Django repo - (Disabled) Automated reviews in the Django repo
Security
- Finalized work on two patches for confirmed issues; in one case, further thinking showed the initial approach was not correct, so I stepped back to reassess before moving forward.
- Spent considerable time on a cluster of related (had duplicated) reports affecting the same area. Revisited the problem from first principles, broke down the current understanding, and summarized status and possible directions as an email to the team.
- In-depth review of a couple of in-progress patches from Jacob.
Other/Misc
- Weekly Fellows meeting.