# Django Fellow Report - Natalia - 2026

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**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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# Week ending 2026-10-18 (Week 42)

Shorter week after taking Monday and Tuesday off 🛋, but still plenty of things moving! I kept pushing 🏎 forward the Sphinx cleanup and DEP 20 release checklists, with some unexpected debugging along the way ⛑. Security work brought another public hardening ticket 🧱 and further patch review. And, in particularly happy news, we had our **very first Triage and Review Team meeting** 🫶, plus new members joining the Security and Triage teams. It’s amazing to see these teams growing and be part of them!

## Triaged

- [#37426 (Restrict the allowed number of open PRs to django/django for new contributors) – Django](https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/37426) - Restrict the allowed number of open PRs to django/django for new contributors (accepted)

## Reviewed

- [Refs #37212 -- Added tests and additional cleanup in djangodocs Sphinx extension. by medmunds · Pull Request #22073 · django/django · GitHub](https://github.com/django/django/pull/22073) - Refs #37212 – Added tests and additional cleanup in djangodocs Sphinx extension.
- [https://github.com/django/django/pull/21764](https://github.com/django/django/pull/21764) - Fixed #37272 – Documented the annual release cycle within the release process docs.
- [Reworked build\_doc\_release to avoid shared environment problems. by medmunds · Pull Request #2894 · django/djangoproject.com · GitHub](https://github.com/django/djangoproject.com/pull/2894) - Reworked build\_doc\_release to avoid shared environment problems.
- [Added Lilian Tran to the security team and Shai Berger to triager role. by sarahboyce · Pull Request #100 · django/dsf-working-groups · GitHub](https://github.com/django/dsf-working-groups/pull/100) - Added Lilian Tran to the security team and Shai Berger to triager role.

## Authored

- [Prepared docs styles for the djangodocs Sphinx extension cleanup by nessita · Pull Request #2849 · django/djangoproject.com · GitHub](https://github.com/django/djangoproject.com/pull/2849) - Prepared docs styles for the djangodocs Sphinx extension cleanup (applied review feedback)
- [[checklists] Adapted the release checklists to DEP 20. by nessita · Pull Request #2825 · django/djangoproject.com · GitHub](https://github.com/django/djangoproject.com/pull/2825) - [checklists] Adapted the release checklists to DEP 20. (applied review feedback and chased some crashes on the download page)
- [[checklists] Allowed choosing the first affected release per branch in CVE records. by nessita · Pull Request #2907 · django/djangoproject.com · GitHub](https://github.com/django/djangoproject.com/pull/2907) - [checklists] Allowed choosing the first affected release per branch in CVE records.

## Security

- Another public hardening resulted from a deep dive in a security report:
  - [#37433 (Escaped database error messages logged by `Q.check()`) – Django](https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/37433) - Escaped database error messages logged by `Q.check()`

- Reviewed and fine-tuned a confirmed report patch.

## Other/Misc

- Weekly Fellows meeting.
- 🆕 Monthly Triage and Review Team meeting.
- Monthly Security Team meeting.

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