Django Fellow Report - Natalia

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Week ending 2023-09-03 (Week 35)

Triaged

• https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/34803 - Nested OuterRef can raise AttributeError: ‘OuterRef’ object has no attribute ‘contains_over_clause’ (worksforme)(accepted)
• https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/34806 - Make cached_db backend resilient to cache backend errors (accepted)

Reviewed

• https://github.com/django/django/pull/17081 - Refs #34712 – Added system check for staticfiles storage in STORAGES setting.
• https://github.com/django/django/pull/16012 - Fixed #12090 – Show admin actions on the edit pages too
• https://github.com/django/django/pull/17218 - Refs #34768 – Ignored lack of just_fix_windows_console() for colorama < 0.4.6.

Authored

• Resurfaced and chased reviews for: https://github.com/django/django/pull/16896 - Reorganized tutorial’s part 4 to better understand changes needed in URLConf.
• https://github.com/django/django/pull/17214 - Added support for callables on model fields’ choices.
• https://github.com/django/django/pull/17215 - Fixed #34807 – Avoided circular import between forms, models and utils’ choices.

Other/Misc

• Read reports and shared thoughts about the djangoproject.com website analysis work.
• Support for choices as mappings has been finally landed! Congrats Tom Forbes (@orf) and Nick Pope (@ngnpope).
  • This was my first big merge and I lost the co-authors. Sorry about that!
• Presented a talk in the Djangonauts space https://fosstodon.org/@djangonaut@indieweb.social/110985440401993749
• More work on DjangoCon US presentation.

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Week ending 2023-09-10 (Week 36)

Triaged

• https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/34813 - Docs miss note about invalid integrity with ManifestStaticFilesStorage (accepted)
• https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/34817 - Boolean field doesn’t look good on django-admin (invalid)
• https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/34819 - GenericForeignKey.get_prefetch_queryset() (needsinfo)(accepted)

Reviewed

• https://github.com/django/django/pull/17227 - Fixed #34813 – Doc’d how calculation of the integrity HTML attr needs to occur after collectstatic.
• https://github.com/django/django/pull/17186 - Modernized enum usage for choices enumeration types.
• https://github.com/django/django/pull/17226 - Fixed #34810 – Measured test coverage on django-admin commands.
• https://github.com/django/django/pull/17169 - WIP: Unforced AutoFields to be primary keys (high level pass)

Authored

• https://github.com/django/django/pull/17214 - Fixed #24561 – Added support for callables on model fields’ choices. (follow up)
  • https://discuss.python.org/t/why-functools-cache-or-lru-cache-does-not-seem-to-wraps-the-passed-function/32965
  • https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/callables-for-model-fields-choices/23654
  • https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/34822 - Provide migration serializer for _lru_cache_wrapper

Other/Misc

• Security reports review and analysis.
• DjangoCon talk continued.

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Week ending 2023-09-17 (Week 37)

Triaged

• https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/34831 - Search in admin could allow issuing a query with many OR’d clauses (accepted)
• https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/34830 - csrf_failure view missing context processors (accepted)

Reviewed

• https://github.com/django/django/pull/17219 - Fixed #34789 – Avoided filter_horizontal misbehaving when instance of same model is added via JS add action.
• https://github.com/django/django/pull/17242 - Fixed #34825 – Avoided opening nonexistent sqlite db in test worker.
• https://github.com/django/django/pull/17256 - Fixed #34822 – Added support for serializing functions decorated with functools.lru_cache in migrations.
• https://github.com/django/django/pull/16942 - Fixed #34429 – Allowed setting unusable password via admin UI.
• https://github.com/django/django/pull/17220 - Fixed #34806 – Made the cached_db backend resilient to cache backend errors.

Authored

• https://github.com/django/django/pull/17214 - Fixed #24561 – Added support for callables on model fields’ choices. (final round of tweaks after reviews and finally landed!)

Other/Misc

• Preparation for Django 5.0 feature freeze and alpha release.
• Security reports review and analysis.
• Removed spam comments from a few tickets.

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Week ending 2023-09-24 (Week 38)

Triaged

• https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/34853 - Accept-Language Header Takes Precedence Over Language Set With Cookie (needsinfo)
• https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/34854 - Missing translations in pt (Portuguese) (invalid)
• https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/34859 - Format SQL code produced by sqlmigrate (wontfix, asked for forum post)

Reviewed

• https://github.com/django/django/pull/17281 - Added updating the Django release process on Trac to release steps.
• https://github.com/django/django/pull/17284 - Fixed #34850 – Dropped support for MariaDB 10.4.
• https://github.com/django/django/pull/17219 - Fixed #34789 – Avoided filter_horizontal misbehaving when instance of same model is added via JS add action.
• https://github.com/django/django/pull/17290 - Refs #34808 – Doc’d that aggregation functions on empty groups can return None.

Authored

• https://github.com/django/django/pull/17277 - [5.0.x] Updated source translation catalogs.
• https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/34848 - Updating translations catalog for javascript files fails with CommandError
• https://github.com/django/django/pull/17293 - Fixed #34848 – Ignored i18n_catalog.js file when building Django’s translations catalog.

Other/Misc

• Django 5.0 feature freeze is in effect, the stable/5.0.x branch was created.
• Django 5.0 alpha 1 was released!
  • https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2023/sep/18/django-50-alpha-1-released/
• Reviewed security reports and prepared patches.

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Week ending 2023-10-01 (Week 39)

Triaged

• https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/34853 - Accept-Language Header takes precedence over cookie for format localization (accepted)(invalid)
  • Deep dive and some minor tidying up to tickets/PRs related to having HTML input widgets with type="date" (https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/33113, https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/29822).
• https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/25943 - Auto Generated urls.py On startapp (continued conversation based on forum post)
• https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/34881 - migrate crashes when renaming model referenced twice by ManyToManyField.through model on SQLite. (accepted)

Reviewed

• https://github.com/django/django/pull/17312 - [4.2.x] Refs #34320 – Skipped SchemaTests.test_rename_field_with_check_to_truncated_name on MariaBD 10.5.2+.
• https://github.com/django/django/pull/17311 - Added warning about flatpages and untrusted users.
• https://github.com/django/django/pull/17318 - Fixed #34878 – Fixed AttributeErrror on reload when using TemplateSetting for FORM_RENDERER.
• https://github.com/django/django/pull/14905 - Fixed #33113 – Doc’d a forms.DateInput type=date example.
• https://github.com/django/django/pull/17324 - add urls.py to app_template (pending forum consensus)
• https://github.com/django/django/pull/15806 - Refs #29822 – Improved date, time and datetime HTML inputs (revisited the PR and followed up with relevant people)

Authored

• https://github.com/django/django/pull/17313 - Added stub release notes and release date for 4.2.6, 4.1.12, and 3.2.22.

Other/Misc

• Finalized security patches for all relevant Django versions.
• Sent prenotification and posted public announcement about the incoming security release planned for Oct 4th.
• Recorded the first practice session of my DjangoCon US presentation. I need to make it shorter or talk faster!