Week ending 2026-04-26 (Week 17)
Building on last week’s work, I continued with a deeper review of the EMAIL_PROVIDERS changes, this time going commit by commit and iterating on each set of comments to keep things manageable and avoid tackling too much at once. So far this feature feels 
solid and ready for inclusion in 6.1 
.
I also spent time reviewing and engaging with the recent 
DEP 20 from Carlton which I can’t wait to have approved and implemented!
Triaged
- #37054 (Precompute the Referrer-Policy header value during middleware initialization) – Django - Precompute the Referrer-Policy header value during middleware initialization (wontfix)
- #37053 (Add validate=True to base64.b64decode() calls) – Django - Add validate=True to base64.b64decode() calls (accepted)
- #37052 (Cleanup: Added test coverage for camel_case_to_spaces utility) – Django - Cleanup: Added test coverage for camel_case_to_spaces utility (invalid)
- #37050 (Improve simple_tag / simple_block_tag error message when as is used without a variable name) – Django - Improve simple_tag / simple_block_tag error message when as is used without a variable name (wontfix)
- #37049 (Changing a m2m through= from one custom model to another is no-op'd instead of raising an error) – Django - Changing a m2m through= from one custom model to another is no-op’d instead of raising an error (accepted)
- #37064 (SimpleTestCase._remove_databases_failures() crashes on un-wrapped connection methods) – Django - SimpleTestCase._remove_databases_failures() crashes on un-wrapped connection methods (invalid)
Reviewed
- Add draft of security team charter. by tim-schilling · Pull Request #56 · django/dsf-working-groups · GitHub - Add draft of security team charter.
- Mark DEP 14 as final by RealOrangeOne · Pull Request #108 · django/deps · GitHub - Mark DEP 14 as final
- https://github.com/django/deps/pull/109 - Adopt Annual Release Cycle (DEP 20)
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- Fixed #37053 -- Added validate=True to base64.b64decode() calls. by sarahboyce · Pull Request #21145 · django/django · GitHub - Fixed #37053 – Added validate=True to base64.b64decode() calls.
- Cleaned up references to accepted PEPs in docs. by medmunds · Pull Request #21118 · django/django · GitHub - Cleaned up references to accepted PEPs in docs.
- https://github.com/django/django/pull/21052 - Fixed #35514 – Implemented dictionary-based EMAIL_PROVIDERS.
Security
- Triaged new security reports.
Other/Misc
- Biweekly meeting with Fellows and Line Manager (Andrew Godwin).
- Weekly Fellows meeting.
- Monthly Online Communities meeting.