Fellow Report - March 13, 2015

[Tim Graham]

We had the security release to start the week. There hasn't been much work to do for 1.8 release blockers, so mainly I've been going through the backlog of patches needing review and reviewing/merging them for 1.9.

Report for week ending March 13, 2015:

Triaged

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https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/24468 - signed_cookies backend crashes when switching from JSONSerializer to PickleSerializer (accepted)

https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/24474 - Make display for null fields in Django admin configurable through settings (accepted)

https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/24476 - Allow using set_script_prefix as a contextmanager (accepted)

https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/24479 - Add a system check to prevent defining both ordering and order_with_respect_to (accepted)

Authored

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https://github.com/django/django/pull/4293 - Fixed #24471 -- Enhanced urlize regex to exclude quotes and angle brackets.

https://github.com/django/django/pull/4292 - Fixed escaping regression in urlize filter.

https://github.com/django/django/pull/4299 - Fixed #24468 -- Made signed cookies cache backend resilient to unpickling exceptions.

https://github.com/django/django/pull/4318 - Fixed #24480 -- Marked strings in contrib.gis templates for translation.

Reviewed/committed

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https://github.com/django/django/pull/4289 - Fixed #24466 -- Added JavaScript escaping in a couple places in the admin.

https://github.com/django/django/pull/4283 - Fixed #24464 -- Made built-in HTML template filter functions escape their input by default.

https://github.com/django/django/pull/4297 - Removed conditional inclusion of actions.js & prepopulate.js

https://github.com/django/django/pull/4279 - Fixed #12943 -- Allowed unnamed arguments to be propagated in includes

https://github.com/django/django/pull/4305 - Fixed #24364 -- Doc'ed that ManifestStaticFileStorage shouldn't be used during testing.

https://github.com/django/django/pull/4197 - Fixed #24226 -- Changed admin EMPTY_CHANGELIST_VALUE from (None) to -

https://github.com/django/django/pull/3903 - Evaluate reason_phrase on demand based on status_code

https://github.com/django/django/pull/4082 - Documented how to use a non-root subdirectory with mod_wsgi

https://github.com/django/django/pull/4211 - Fixed #24416 -- Added support for lazy email addresses.

https://github.com/django/django/pull/4013 - Fixed #24052 -- Doc'd how to write data migrations with models in multiple apps.

https://github.com/django/django/pull/4286 - Fixed #24253 -- Documented staff_member_required decorator

https://github.com/django/django/pull/3609 - Fixed #12982 -- Added a get_or_set() method to the BaseCache backend.

https://github.com/django/django/pull/3535 - Fixed #23643 -- Added chained exception details to debug view.

Reviews of core dev work

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https://github.com/django/django/pull/4285 - Fixed #24382 -- Allowed unicode chars inside formatted numbers

https://github.com/django/django/pull/4303 - Fixed #24122 -- Added redirection to translated url after setting language