/2021

Weeknotes 2021 WK 45

Previously, we identified contributors to Django 4.0 by those who’d committed to the django/django repo during the 4.0 development cycle. To reiterate, that’s not everybody who contributed, or every contribution (by a long shot) but it’s a good start.

Weeknotes 2021 WK 44

For the first time in eight years, I was setting up a Mac this week. Chats about setups always seem to go well, so I thought I’d log a few points.

Weeknotes 2021 WK 42

For Django 4.0 we’d like to do something to call out the contributors, especially new ones. Will and I discussed some reasons for this in the recent Django Chat episode on Django 4.0, but the long-and-short is that it’s about …

Weeknotes 2020 WK 41

Quiet again this week, which is nice.

Weeknotes 2021 WK 40

Something of a quiet week. I released Django 3.2.8, and then spent what felt like the rest of it with Selenium.

Weeknotes 2021 WK 39

Will and I kicked-off the new season of Django Chat this week, with an episode on the upcoming Django 4.0 and various other topics that have come up over the summer.

Weeknotes 2021 WK38

Right, back to it. 👷‍♀️

Weeknotes 2021 WK 30

It’s the height of summer. Busy here now.

Weeknotes 2021 WK 29

What a week.

Weeknotes 2021 WK 28

We saw my wife’s parents for the first time in 15months this week. It was really great. Somewhat surreal.

Weeknotes 2021 WK 27

My eldest turned 13 this week. I’ll just put a little, Wowser there and leave it at that.

Weeknotes 2021 WK 26

Summertime. Kids are off school — 12 weeks they have here 😳. Settling into the routine.

Weeknotes 2021 WK 25

Bits and pieces.

Weeknotes 2021 WK 24

RescueTime wasn’t happy with me this week. I spent far too long in Teams.

Weeknotes 2021 WK 23

Summer dominates the year where I live in Spain. It’s long and it’s hot. Tourism is the biggest industry here, so Summer is also the time when people gain most of the money that they depend-on for the year.

Weeknotes 2021 WK 22

It was DjangoCon this week. As usual, totally exhausted by the end of it. 😃

Weeknotes 2021 WK 21

I was honoured and excited this week to be accepted onto the DjangoGirls Advisory Board.

Weeknotes 2021 WK 20

We’re solidly mid-cycle on Django now. That means looking towards Django 4.0. The feature freeze isn’t until September. Lots of time, in theory; the reality is not.

Weeknotes 2021 WK 19

Time to pull my talk together for DjangoCon Europe. Part of that involves packaging up some bits I’ve been playing with over the last few months.

Weeknotes 2021 WK 18

I’d planned to do the security releases on Tuesday this week and then take the rest of the week off. This was a good plan it turned out.

Weeknotes 2021 Week 17

Family birthday this weekend, so just a quickie. 🎂

Weeknotes 2021 Week 16

We’ve been sheltering now, the same as you, for over a year. Thus far it’s worked: we’ve been COVID-free.

Weeknotes 2021 WK 15

There seemed to be a lot of Release Blockers this week — bugs in new features, or regressions from previous versions. That’s to be expected: folks are installing the new version (3.2) and coming up against the changes. Ultimately, it’s …

Weeknotes 2021 Week 14

This week was all about towards Tuesday. We had three security releases first thing, which Mariusz knocked out, and then Django 3.2 final a little later in the day.

Weeknotes 2021 Week 13

Happy Easter 🥚 — Our rabbit brought Milka bars. According to our youngest supply of eggs was constrained because of coronavirus.

Weeknotes 2021 Week 12

There’s ongoing work to update the Stripe integration on djangoproject.com — for the fundraising, you know. Go support Django now! 😃

Weeknotes 2021 Week 11

As part of Django 3.2 autocomplete_fields now supports custom to_field and limit_choices_to when searching a related model.

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Weeknotes 2021 Week 9

This week I got going with two pieces of kit that have been on the backlog for a while: Alpine.js and PythonKit, which is for Swift. Whilst doing this I began a Today I learnt section on the site, for …

Weeknotes 2021 Week 8

The pandemic is still on so, On holiday is carrying a lot of work there. I stayed at home, took some time off, and got a much-needed small mental break this week. Mostly that’s not looking at the Django Trac. …

Weeknotes 2021 Week 7

As well as the Django Development Dashboard, with its all important Unreviewed tickets, Release blockers, and Patches needing review queues, I have a kind of long-list of things I want to get done on the project.

Weeknotes 2021 Week 6

February. So, time to apply for Google Summer of Code.

Weeknotes 2021 Week 5

Just a quick one this week, we have a family birthday this weekend. 🎉

Weeknotes 2021 WK 4

I’m creeping towards a release for Button. Target is early access for the middle of February, with a more complete v1.0 for the end of March. (Will and I were on TalkPython this week discussing deployment, where we talked a …

Weeknotes 2021 WK 3

After a couple of weeks building up, I put out the Django 3.2 alpha on Tuesday.

Weeknotes 2021 WK 2

Another week all about the Django 3.2 feature freeze, which was Thursday.

Weeknotes 2021 WK 1

This week was dominated by preparing for the Django 3.2 feature freeze, which is due January 14. As ever, there’s a big long list, far too long really, of things we’d like to get in. Both Mariusz and I are …