Django Source Code Contributions
Two admin-interface bug fixes merged into Django core — one shipped in Django 3.1, one folded into a combined fix by the Django Fellow with git authorship preserved. Listed in the Django AUTHORS file for the effort.
Giving something back
After ten years of building on Django, the occasional pair of bugs in the admin bothered me enough to chase them into the framework itself. Both went in through the regular ticket + pull-request path; both ended up in django/django. My name is in the AUTHORS file as a result. That was the point — not a headline project, just two fixes in the place they actually lived.
Admin inlines you could not delete after a validation error
If an admin inline was newly added and the parent form failed validation, the new inline had no delete button. The only exit was to fix the validation error or reload the page and lose every other unsaved change on the form. Small bug, easy to step into, easy to lose work to.
The fix added a delete control to unsaved inlines on validation failure — mostly JavaScript and template work, with Selenium tests covering the before/after shape. It shipped in Django 3.1 via PR #11504 against ticket #29087. Review was a proper back-and-forth over commit structure and edge cases before the Django Fellow was satisfied and merged it.
"Clear all filters" in raw_id_fields popups
The newly added "Clear all filters" link on changelist views appeared in the wrong places — including inside raw_id_fields popups, where clicking it would drop URL parameters the popup relies on. I opened ticket #31597 against the regression and submitted a PR that scoped the link correctly and preserved the popup's required parameters.
The Django Fellow closed my PR in favour of a combined fix (PR #12934) that merged several related tickets, cherry-picking my commits into the combined PR with git authorship preserved. I then caught a follow-up bug in that combined PR on review; the suggested code change was accepted.