Django Fellow Report - Sarah - 2026

[sarahboyce]

Week ending 2026-04-05 (Week 14)

Hello hello I am back from maternity leave but working part-time for now
I am currently working from Turkey . Discord is not easily accessed in Turkey so I will be less responsive on that platform than I used to be.

My Fellow report for 2025 can be found here: Django Fellow Report - Sarah - 2025

Triaged

• #37016 (Avoid propagating invalid arguments from When() to Q() on dictionary expansion) – Django (accepted)
• #37017 (alogout() doesn't clear request.user) – Django (accepted)
• #37018 (Generated migrations should use tuples instead of lists) – Django (wontfix)
• #37019 (Make sync login() and logout() set request.auser if present) – Django (accepted)
• #37020 (Adjust release instructions to stop editing *.po files fetched from Transifex) – Django (accepted)
• #37022 (manage.py runserver fails with "nodename nor servname provided" when run using an rfc6761 hostname) – Django (worksforme)

Reviewed

• Fixed #37017 -- Fixed setting or clearing of request.user after alogin()/alogout(). by jacobtylerwalls · Pull Request #21045 · django/django · GitHub
• Fixed #27150 — Fixed boolean evaluation of base File objects without a name. by VIZZARD-X · Pull Request #20327 · django/django · GitHub
• Fixed #36542 -- Hid sensitive POST parameters in debug mode. by kanin-kearpimy · Pull Request #20959 · django/django · GitHub

Other/Misc

• Updated status and notification level of GitHub, Forum, and Slack
• Added my opinion to discussion on whether to re-triage old accepted new feature tickets: Old tickets that could be needsnewfeatureprocess - #5 by blighj
• Added my opinion on Design feedback: Truncating the related objects list in Admin delete confirmation (Ticket #10919) - #4 by sarahboyce
• Setup opera in order to access Discord while in Turkey
• Added to the discussion on migrating Transifex to Weblate: Improving the process of incorporating translations to Django - #17 by sarahboyce
• Updated myself on current status of GSoC

[sarahboyce]

Week ending 2026-04-12 (Week 15)

Triaged

• #37023 (Make XML serializer put each ManyToManyField object on its own line) – Django (accepted)
• #37025 (RemoteUserMiddleware.header does not correspond to request.META in the async path) – Django (accepted)
• #37026 (edit_only not implemented for formsets in GenericInlineModelAdmin) – Django (accepted)

Reviewed

• Fixed #13376: Added kwargs argument to messages API to allow extension of functionality to the Storage & Message class. by nanorepublica · Pull Request #18332 · django/django · GitHub
• https://github.com/django/djangoproject.com/pull/2458
• https://github.com/django/django/pull/19564
• Fixed #36621 -- Fixed arrow buttons position in admin filter_vertical widget. by Antoliny0919 · Pull Request #19940 · django/django · GitHub
• Fixed #33113 -- Documented usage and caveats of HTML5 date input in DateInput widget by Samriddha9619 · Pull Request #19902 · django/django · GitHub
• Fixed #36498 -- Changed inline admin button text to use "Add" instead of "Add another" by DaniFornons · Pull Request #20084 · django/django · GitHub
• https://github.com/django/dsf-working-groups/pull/56
• Allowed creation of site-wide banners via the admin interface. by nessita · Pull Request #2586 · django/djangoproject.com · GitHub
• Moved Django 4.2 to unsupported versions table. by jacobtylerwalls · Pull Request #2591 · django/djangoproject.com · GitHub

Authored

• Clarified "Add another question" as the plus icon button. by sarahboyce · Pull Request #21066 · django/django · GitHub

Other/Misc

• Did initial screening of GSoC applicants based of Django contributing history
• Engaged in 3 security reports
• Investigated labeling security discussions to track status
• Weekly fellow sync
• Meeting with Board Liaison
• Reviewed security meeting notes from missed meetings
• Emailed to DSF board around reaching out to Weblate as a potential in-kind sponsor
• Was trained on the new CNA processes

[sarahboyce]

Week ending 2026-04-19 (Week 16)

Aiming for Fixed #12090 -- Show admin actions on the edit pages too by mgaligniana · Pull Request #16012 · django/django · GitHub to be merged as part of 6.1 and so starting to push minor changes.

Triaged

• #37032 (Clarify that django.template.context_processors.csrf is enabled by default in ref docs) – Django (invalid)
• #37033 (Psycopg2 has different semantics than psycopg3 and should not be deprecated) – Django (invalid → accepted)
• #37031 (Improve writing migrations guide to adding unique fields on existing table) – Django (accepted)
• #37039 (Outdated QuerySet.iterator() documentation) – Django (accepted)
• #37040 (pylibmc and pymemcache suggested for Memcached cempletely outdated) – Django (wontfix)
• #37042 (alogin() does not invalidate _acached_user, causing stale AnonymousUser after async login) – Django (duplicate)

Reviewed

• Fixed #37025 -- Doc'd that RemoteUserMiddleware.header does not correspond to request.META under ASGI. by jacobtylerwalls · Pull Request #21079 · django/django · GitHub
• Ref #36912 - Added benchmarks for Q.create() by amakarudze · Pull Request #98 · django/django-asv · GitHub
• Fixed #27150 -- Made base File objects truthy by default. by VIZZARD-X · Pull Request #20327 · django/django · GitHub
• Fixed #37029 -- Corrected placement of </div> in change_list.html's pagination block. by timgraham · Pull Request #21099 · django/django · GitHub
• Allowed creation of site-wide banners via the admin interface. by nessita · Pull Request #2586 · django/djangoproject.com · GitHub
• Ref #36912 - Added benchmarks for Q.create() by amakarudze · Pull Request #98 · django/django-asv · GitHub
• Fixed #37007 -- Extended writing style docs with a discussion of voice. by jacobtylerwalls · Pull Request #21012 · django/django · GitHub
• Fixed #12090 -- Show admin actions on the edit pages too by mgaligniana · Pull Request #16012 · django/django · GitHub

Other/Misc

• Completed required setup in order to reserve, update, publish CVEs
• Reviewed GSoC applications
• Weekly sync
• Engaged in 2 security issues