Fellow Report - April 3, 2015
Tim Graham
During the first half of the week I assisted with a couple of final bugs in 1.8. I also did some other release preparation tasks, like updating the djangoproject.com downloads page (which is mostly programatically generated) to accommodate two supported LTS versions (otherwise 1.4 would have appeared as “unsupported” upon the release of 1.8).
Later in the week I spent some time on other djangoproject.com issues. I helped Jannis Leidel rollout Elasticsearch integration for the documentation search page and reviewed/merged Michael Trythall’s work to switch the website’s SCSS compilation to libsass. The latter allowed us to remove the compiled CSS files from the repository and instead compile it on the server which should help prevent merge conflicts. I added a new “Supported Versions” sections to the download page to give a better overview of which Django versions are supported and for how long.
We’ve already merged 3 bug fixes to be released in 1.8.1. I plan to release that version by May 1, perhaps sooner if we accumulate a lot of fixes in the meantime.
Report for week ending April 3, 2015:
Triaged
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https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/24565 - server_default option on model fields (duplicate)
https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/24566 -MigrationWriter doesn't serialize timedelta (accepted)
https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/24567 - /admin/auth/user/add/ requires "auth | user | Can change user" (invalid)
https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/24574 - 'python manage.py runserver' sleeps forever because of threading lock (needsinfo)
https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/24576 - Bad cascading leads to non-deterministic IntegrityError (accepted)
https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/24575 - Add an option to smtp.EmailBackend for DKIM signing (won’t fix)
https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/24578 - prepare_database_save breaks some OneToOneField's in 1.8 (accepted)
Authored
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https://github.com/django/djangoproject.com/pull/421 - Added support for two supported LTS versions to the downloads page.
https://github.com/django/djangoproject.com/pull/424 - Fixed #390 -- Added release notes links to download page.
https://github.com/django/djangoproject.com/pull/428 - Added a "Supported Versions" table to the downloads page.
https://github.com/django/django/pull/4411 - Fixed sessions test on Python 3.5.
Reviewed/committed
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https://github.com/django/django/pull/4406 - Fixed #15590 -- Documented how the path of a FileField can be changed.
https://github.com/django/django/pull/4409 - Fixed #24556 -- Added reminder about HTTPS to passwords docs.
https://github.com/django/django/pull/4105 - Fixed #24301 -- Added PostgreSQL-specific aggregate functions
https://github.com/django/django/pull/4424 - Fixed behavior of InclusionNode.
https://github.com/django/djangoproject.com/pull/420 - Switched to Libsass for CSS compilation.
https://github.com/django/djangoproject.com/pull/303 - Switched search to Elasticsearch
https://github.com/django/djangoproject.com/pull/430 - Switched to watchdog for recursive CSS watching.
https://github.com/django/djangoproject.com/pull/432 - Ensured icons flip when they are in view.
https://github.com/django/djangoproject.com/pull/413 - Gray out unpublished blog entry summaries.
Reviews of core dev work
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https://github.com/django/django/pull/4408 - Fixed #24550 -- Added migration operation description to sqlmigrate output
https://github.com/django/django/pull/4444 - Fixed #24571 -- Restored testserver positional arguments parsing
https://github.com/django/django/pull/4445 - Fixed #24569 -- Made some translation functions accept None value