Fellow Reports -- March 2021

[Carlton Gibson]

Hi all. 

Calendar Week 9 -- ending 07 March.

Triaged:

https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/32504 -- Update admin's jQuery to 3.6.X. (Accepted)

https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/32412 -- User.has_perm should forward **kwargs to allow more flexibility in authentication backends (wontfix)

https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/32484 -- Can't access inherited fields from multi-table inherited model when using apps from MigrationExecutor (needsinfo)

https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/32464 -- Enable "detaching" of file from FileField and ImageField (wontfix)

https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/32493 -- Remove unnecessary use of never_cache in admin views (Accepted)

Reviewed:

https://github.com/django/django/pull/13299 -- Fixed #31867 -- Made TabularInline handling of hidden fields with view-only permissions consistent with StackedInline.

https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/28426 -- Add HTTP authentication support to startproject --template

https://github.com/django/django/pull/14075 -- Refs #32483 -- Doc'd caveat about using JSONField key transforms to booleans with QuerySet.values()/values_list() on SQLite.

https://github.com/django/django/pull/14056 -- Fixed #27854 -- Added system check for nonexistent directories in STATICFILES_DIRS setting.

https://github.com/django/django/pull/13981 -- Refs #32412 -- Adjusted Contributing Guide start page.

https://github.com/django/django/pull/14072 -- Updated links to djangoproject.com/code.djangoproject.com repositories.

https://github.com/django/django/pull/14066 -- Fixed #32493 - Remove unnecessary uses of never_cache from admin views

Authored:

https://github.com/django/channels/pull/1645 -- Adjusted tox config for Django 3.2 beta.

Calendar Week 10 -- ending 14 March.

Triaged:

https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/32513 -- SQLite3 Backend Falsly claims SQLite does not support Timezone aware DateTimes (invalid)

https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/32518 -- Document that QuerySet.contains() should not be overused. (Accepted)

https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/32531 -- Cache key not learnt for 304 responses — view must keep redoing work until "fresh" request comes in! (invalid)

https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/32535 -- Include reference to DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS in middleware docs (Accepted)

https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/32523 -- Warn when trying to use a widget as a field in a form (wontfix)

Reviewed:

https://github.com/django/django/pull/14104 -- Fixed #32529 -- Delayed creating a test suite in build_suite().

https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/26790 -- Move BaseUserManager.normalize_email() to AbstractUser

https://github.com/django/django/pull/14090 -- Add a message to new contributors when they open a PR

https://github.com/django/django/pull/14106 -- Removed unnecessary lines in test_has_view_or_change_permission_required().

https://github.com/django/django/pull/14031 -- Fixed #32466 -- Changed to_field_name for m2m releations to pk

https://github.com/django/django/pull/14095 -- Refs #32018 -- Corrected color variable for toggle links in admin.

https://github.com/django/django/pull/14096 -- Refs #32018 -- Used --darkened-bg for <pre> elements.

https://github.com/django/djangoproject.com/pull/1039 -- Switch Dockerfile to Python 3.6 #1039

https://github.com/django/djangoproject.com/pull/1069 -- Added missing translatable strings in docs template.

https://github.com/django/django/pull/14097 -- Updated link to Selenium webdrivers.

https://github.com/django/django/pull/14086 -- Server sent events

Authored:

https://github.com/django/djangoproject.com/pull/1073 -- Updated Sentry SDK.

https://github.com/django/djangoproject.com/pull/1072 -- Refs #1052 -- Added max_value validation to donations.

Calendar Week 11 -- ending 21 March.

Released Django 3.2rc1

Triaged:

https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/32567 -- Issues with ":" and "|" characters in URLs when using LiveServerTestCase on Windows (Accepted)

https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/32565 -- Extract URL resolver view strings mapping to admindocs (Accepted)

https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/32563 -- Cannot override database used with RelatedManager (invalid)

https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/32562 -- Broken Authentication (Insecure CSRF and Session ID) (needsinfo)

https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/32561 -- Unpacking request.GET into a function call turns the values into lists with one item. (invalid)

https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/32543 -- Add `search_help_text` to `admin.ModelAdmin` (Accepted)

https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/32513 -- SQLite3 Backend Falsly claims SQLite does not support Timezone aware DateTimes (wontfix)

https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/32552 -- Change DiscoverRunner to use a logger instead of print (Accepted)

Reviewed:

https://github.com/django/django/pull/14031 -- Fixed #32466 -- Corrected autocomplete to_field resolution for complex cases.

https://github.com/django/django/pull/12580 -- Fixed #31370 -- Added support for parallel tests with --buffer.

https://github.com/django/django/pull/13829 -- Fixed #16010 -- Added Origin header checking to CSRF middleware.

Kind Regards,

Carlton

[Carlton Gibson]

Hi all,

Calendar Week 12 -- ending 28 March.

Triaged:

https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/32591 -- Change DiscoverRunner always to run _FailedTest "tests" first (Accepted)

https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/32589 -- Document the need for calling close_old_connections in long-running management commands. (Duplicate of #14845)

https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/32568 -- Prefer SafeString to mark_safe where possible (Accepted)

https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/32577 -- Add support for `UUIDAutoField` `DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD` (Accepted)

Reviewed:

https://github.com/django/djangoproject.com/pull/986 -- Display header link in code snippet on hover #986

https://github.com/django/djangoproject.com/pull/954 -- Add dependencies for update_docs to run #954

https://github.com/django/djangoproject.com/pull/896 -- Update download page: updated roadmap and better focus on supported versions.

https://github.com/django/django/pull/14163 -- Fixed RemoteTestResultTest tests without tblib.

https://github.com/django/djangoproject.com/pull/901 -- Clarifed README setup steps.

https://github.com/django/django/pull/14171 -- Doc'd that RawSQL can be used with __in.

https://github.com/django/django/pull/14175 -- Optimized backends tests by specifying a database table.

https://github.com/django/django/pull/13728 -- Add settings EMAIL_MESSAGEID_FQDN

https://github.com/django/django/pull/14174 -- Removed trailing whitespaces in error messages.

https://github.com/django/django/pull/14077 -- Fixed #32483 -- Fixed QuerySet.values()/values_list() on JSONField key transforms with booleans on SQLite.

Authored:

https://github.com/django/djangoproject.com/pull/1079 -- [Draft] Added Pycharm banners for 2021 fundraiser. #1079

https://github.com/django/djangoproject.com/pull/1078 -- Re-added reCaptcha to fundraising page. #1078

Kind Regards,

Carlton