allow author field to be blank when editing announcements

Author: pinwheeeel

core/migrations/0082_alter_announcement_author_alter_blogpost_author_and_more.py

@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+# Generated by Django 5.1.13 on 2025-11-24 15:51
+
+import django.db.models.deletion
+from django.conf import settings
+from django.db import migrations, models
+
+
+class Migration(migrations.Migration):
+
+    dependencies = [
+        ('core', '0081_banner'),
+    ]
+
+    operations = [
+        migrations.AlterField(
+            model_name='announcement',
+            name='author',
+            field=models.ForeignKey(blank=True, null=True, on_delete=django.db.models.deletion.SET_NULL, related_name='%(class)ss_authored', to=settings.AUTH_USER_MODEL),
+        ),
+        migrations.AlterField(
+            model_name='blogpost',
+            name='author',
+            field=models.ForeignKey(blank=True, null=True, on_delete=django.db.models.deletion.SET_NULL, related_name='%(class)ss_authored', to=settings.AUTH_USER_MODEL),
+        ),
+        migrations.AlterField(
+            model_name='exhibit',
+            name='author',
+            field=models.ForeignKey(blank=True, null=True, on_delete=django.db.models.deletion.SET_NULL, related_name='%(class)ss_authored', to=settings.AUTH_USER_MODEL),
+        ),
+    ]

core/models/post.py

@@ -216,6 +216,7 @@ def get_todays_announcements(cls) -> QuerySet:
 class Post(models.Model):
     author = models.ForeignKey(
         settings.AUTH_USER_MODEL,
+        blank=True,
         null=True,
         on_delete=models.SET_NULL,
         related_name="%(class)ss_authored",