Fellow Report - December 19, 2014

[Tim Graham]

The team has uploaded a new policy for django-releasers which should enable more members of the team to roll a release. I’m optimistic we’ll finally be able to get the 1.7.2 bug fix release out next week.

https://www.djangoproject.com/m/pgp/django-releasers.txt

Besides the work below, I also assisted with QA and the rollout of the new djangoproject.com. I also did some investigation on 1.8 release blockers which you can find summarized in the "status of 1.8 release blockers" thread on this list.

Report for week ending December 19, 2014:

Triaged

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https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/23995 - Remove unnecessary calls to self.client.logout() in tests (created)

https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/24000 - create_default_site 'db' kwarg should be 'using' (accepted)

https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/24015 - Django doesn't quote index names in SQL generated by migrations (accepted)

https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/24013 - reverse() escapes unreserved characters supplied by prefix (accepted)

https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/24026 - migration RunPython operation ignores db router allow_migrate (duplicate)

https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/24022 - Deprecate {% ssi %} template tag (created)

https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/24012 - models.UUIDfield fails on Oracle backend (invalid)

https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/24032 - use has_permission instead of explicit is_staff for AdminSite (duplicate)

Authored

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https://github.com/django/django/pull/3757 - Fixed #21414 -- Removed usage of RelatedObject and deprecated it. (rebased this old patch to apply cleanly to master)

Reviewed/committed

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https://github.com/django/django/pull/3723 - Fixed #23812 - Changed django.utils.six.moves.xrange imports to range

https://github.com/django/django/pull/3732 - Fixed #23987 - Sqlite should always use effective_default

https://github.com/django/django/pull/3700 - Fixed #23405 - Fixed asking for default value for `CharField` and `TextField` in migrations

https://github.com/django/django/pull/3687 - Fixed #23822 -- Added support for serializing model managers in migration

https://github.com/django/django/pull/3710 - Fixed #23884 -- Moved FlatPageSitemap into django.contrib.flatpages.

https://github.com/django/django/pull/3726 - Fixed #23947 -- Django's test suite doesn't pass in reverse order with PostgreSQL

https://github.com/django/django/pull/3735 - Fixed #23983 - Fixed a crash in migration when adding `order_with_respect_to` to table with data

https://github.com/django/django/pull/3734 - Fixed #16028 - Moved defaultfilters tests into template_tests.

https://github.com/django/django/pull/3728 - Fixed #23497 -- Made admin system checks run for custom AdminSites.

Reviews of core dev work

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https://github.com/django/django/pull/3748 - Fixed #24014 -- Unified OGRException and GDALException

https://github.com/django/django/pull/3758 - Made model_regress unpickling test CWD-independent (I also helped to debug this test on Windows)

In progress reviews

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https://github.com/django/django/pull/3729 - Fixed #16501 -- Added a unicode parameter to models.SlugField and forms.SlugField.

https://github.com/django/django/pull/3634 - Fixed #22276 -- Surfaced ValidationError to end-user if management form is invalid

https://github.com/django/django/pull/3739 - Fixed #23998 -- Added datetime.time support to migrations questioner