Django Google Summer of Code 2024

[adamchainz]

Like last year (#1337), Django is doing GSoC again and django-stubs is on the list of potential projects.

It actually remained there because it was just copied from last year’s wiki page, with two projects that I think are now irrelevant:

1. Mypy strict-mode support - the stubs should be mostly(?) strict-mode compatible since Remove typecheck test and clean things up #1556.
2. Merging django-types back in - somewhat covered by supporting other checkers in Make mypy a soft dependency #1628, and hard to merge further due to continued drift.

So I just deleted those projects from the wiki page and added a generic one, Expand django-stubs coverage, which would cover any proposal for clearing some of the entries from the stubtest TODO files.

Other maintainers and regular contributors, do you think this is okay? Would you be willing to mentor, and do you have any other possible projects?

[sobolevn]

I won't participate in GSoC ever again: https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/faq?hl=en#are_participants_from_ukraine_russia_or_belarus_allowed_to_participate_in_gsoc_2024

But, I have no problem with other contributors / maintainers participating :)

[jorenham]

What are your thoughts on putting pyright compatiblity in there as one of the main goals?

[sobolevn]

@jorenham this is a good project, yes! You would need to find some other mentor among django-stubs maintainers, though :)

[Viicos]

This also relates to sbdchd#207, I'll try to find some time working on this in the next couple weeks. I'll be attending DjangoCon Europe in June as well, maybe I'll find some time to work on it there