Week ending 2026-04-12 (Week 15)
A good chunk of this week focused on improving contributor workflows and reducing review overhead 
by introducing automated quality checks for PRs 
. This builds on prior experimentation (thanks @frankwiles) and seeks to provide early, actionable feedback for PR authors while helping maintainers focus on substantive review 
. We also had a flood 
of overly verbose and low quality reports from the same person 
, which I closed eagerly making use of the recent new guidelines we published in the security policy.
Reviewed
- Fixed #37020 -- Removed guidance to edit fetched .po files by hand. by jacobtylerwalls · Pull Request #21048 · django/django · GitHub - Fixed #37020 – Removed guidance to edit fetched .po files by hand.
- Fixed #36837 -- Allowed Client.force_login() to skip permission-only backends. by SnippyCodes · Pull Request #21074 · django/django · GitHub - Fixed #36837 – Allowed Client.force_login() to skip permission-only backends.
Authored
- [checklists] Set of 3 independent fixes, see commits. by nessita · Pull Request #2584 · django/djangoproject.com · GitHub - [checklists] Set of 3 independent fixes, see commits.
- [checklists] Avoided duplication of “severity sentence” on blogpost. Fixes Checklists: Severity is re-appended to blog post draft #2583.
- [checklists] Migrated .rst blogpost templates to .md.
- [checklists] Ensured CVE ordering is numeric and not lexicographic. Fixes Checklists: Sorting by CVE number is alphabetical, not numeric #2577.
- Allowed creation of site-wide banners via the admin interface. by nessita · Pull Request #2586 · django/djangoproject.com · GitHub - Allowed creation of site-wide banners via the admin interface.
- This follows a Board request to have future/incoming campaigns being more easily advertised in the website.
- Fixed two issues in release helper scripts/verify_release.sh. by nessita · Pull Request #21068 · django/django · GitHub - Fixed two issues in release helper scripts/verify_release.sh.
- Added automated quality checks for PRs as a GitHub Actions workflow. by nessita · Pull Request #21077 · django/django · GitHub - Added automated quality checks for PRs as a GitHub Actions workflow.
- This is a notable step toward improving signal over noise in the review process, providing contributors with early feedback and helping maintainers focus on meaningful review. It builds on Frank’s prior work and ongoing discussions around contributor workflow improvements.
Security
- Fellows security sync to summarize what’s changed in the last 6 months (Sarah’s catch up):
- CNA/CVE explanation and training
- Created user for Sarah to issue CVEs under the DFS CNA
- Resetted Sarah’s access in djangoproject.com’s admin.
- Walkthrough around the checklist generator now available in djangoproject.com.
- Triaged half of a dozen (or more?) security reports.
- Reviewed proposed PRs for confirmed vulnerabilities.
Other/Misc
- Biweekly meeting with Fellows and Board Liaison (Jeff Triplett).
Biweekly meeting with Fellows and Line Manager (Andrew Godwin).(I was off on Monday)- Weekly Fellows meeting.
- Monthly meeting with the Security Team.
- Monthly meeting with the CoC Working Group.
- 1-1 Meeting with Shai Berger (Security Team Member).