# Django Fellow Report - Natalia - 2026

**URL:** <https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/django-fellow-report-natalia-2026/43850>\
**Category:** Django Internals\
**Created:** [January 5, 2026, 1:02pm UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/django-fellow-report-natalia-2026/43850 "2026-01-05T13:02:52Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 13, 2026, 1:50pm UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/django-fellow-report-natalia-2026/43850/15 "2026-04-13T13:50:50Z")

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# 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](https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/internals/security/#respecting-maintainer-time).

## Reviewed

- [Fixed #37020 -- Removed guidance to edit fetched .po files by hand. by jacobtylerwalls · Pull Request #21048 · django/django · GitHub](https://github.com/django/django/pull/21048) - 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](https://github.com/django/django/pull/21074) - 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](https://github.com/django/djangoproject.com/pull/2584) - [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](https://github.com/django/djangoproject.com/issues/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](https://github.com/django/djangoproject.com/issues/2577).

- [Allowed creation of site-wide banners via the admin interface. by nessita · Pull Request #2586 · django/djangoproject.com · GitHub](https://github.com/django/djangoproject.com/pull/2586) - 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](https://github.com/django/django/pull/21068) - 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](https://github.com/django/django/pull/21077) - 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](https://github.com/frankwiles/pr-playground) and ongoing [discussions around contributor workflow improvements](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/limiting-pr-creation-to-verified-contributors-collaborators/44205/18).

## 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](http://djangoproject.com)’s admin.
  - Walkthrough around the checklist generator now available in [djangoproject.com](http://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).

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