Django: Docs Theme Tests and Tooling Reliability
Django activity centered on docs infrastructure, with three proposals to switch the documentation theme and merged fixes to unify docs checks across platforms. A new admin system check and clearer editing-view docs round out the changes.
Duration: PT2M26S
Episode overview
This episode is a short developer briefing from Django.
It explains recent repository work in plain language.
- Show: Django
- Published: 2026-10-30T13:04:28Z
- Audio duration: PT2M26S
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Hello, today is October 30th, 2026, and this is your Django developer briefing.
The clear signal today is documentation infrastructure, with parallel work on a new visual theme and on making docs checks more reliable, plus a small admin safety fix.
First theme: docs look and navigation. Three related proposals from Mike Edmunds under ticket 37138 test moving away from split top and side navigation. Early drafts in PRs 22214 and 22215 evaluate the book theme, praised for combining Bootstrap styling and accessibility with collapsible sidebar navigation. The…
Second theme: docs tooling consistency, and this part already landed. Merged PR 22111 makes the Sphinx configuration the single source of truth for which files count as docs sources, replacing hand-duplicated exclusion lists in make scripts and linters. Supporting commits add Windows coverage with a dedicated…
Finally, two functional touches. PR 22216 from Alex Kane adds a new admin system check, admin E 042, that flags when a field is listed in both the fields or fieldsets setting and the exclude setting, a contradiction that currently crashes add and change views with a key error. And PR 22213 documents method…
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