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  1. 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.

  2. Weeknotes 2021 Week 6

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

  3. Weeknotes 2021 Week 5

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

  4. 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 …

  5. Weeknotes 2021 WK 3

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

  6. Weeknotes 2021 WK 2

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

  7. 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 …

  8. Weeknotes 2020 WK 51

    Looks like we made it. Breathe.

  9. Weeknotes 2020 WK 50

    We need to update Django’s Stripe integration for the new Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) flows that come into force at the end of this year. This wasn’t on our radar at all until called-out by Ben Balder Bach, of the …

  10. Weeknotes 2020 WK 49

    Within a measurement error, that took the entire week. Estimation optimism played a good role, ”Oh, no worries, I’ll be able to get lots done too”. Not so.