id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc,stage,has_patch,needs_docs,needs_tests,needs_better_patch,easy,ui_ux 4688,startproject breaks if django files are read-only (settings.py),tstromberg@…,Adrian Holovaty,"We keep all of our dependencies, including Django, in a local revision control repository. In our system, all files are stored read-only unless you have them checked out for edit. Django startproject makes a copy of settings.py and adds a secret key to it, but does not check to see if settings.py is writeable beforehand. I've attached a patch that we will be using in our internal copy of Django, which is against an SVN checkout from today. ",,closed,Core (Management commands),dev,,fixed,settings.py read-only,,Unreviewed,1,0,0,0,0,0