Fixed #21750 -- Fixed regression introduced by 4befb30.

Validating STATIC_ROOT in StaticFilesStorage.__init__ turned out to be
problematic - especially with tests - because the storage refuses to work even
if there are no actual interactions with the file system, which is backward
incompatible.

Originally the validation happened in the StaticFilesStorage.path method, but
that didn't work as expected because the call to FileSystemStorage.__init__
replaced the empty value by a valid path. The new approach is to move back the
check to the StaticFilesStorage.path method, but ensure that the location
attribute remains None after the call to super.

Refs #21581.
Fixed #8898 -- Obsoleted SplitDateTimeWidget usage with DateTimeField

Thanks Tim Graham for the review.
Fixed #21547 -- Updated GeoDjango tutorial with PostGIS 2 output

Thanks awilliams at cironline.org for the report.
Fixed #21756 -- Skipped two timezone-related tests on Windows.

Windows cannot use a time zone other than the default time zone.

Thanks manfre for the report.
Fixed #21413 -- resolve_columns fields misalignment
Fixed a test isolation issue. Refs #17062.

This test could change settings.DATABASES['default']['TIME_ZONE'] and
didn't restore the previous value.
Fixed #21452 -- Non-autocommit connections to PostgreSQL.

When settings.DATABASES['default']['AUTOCOMMIT'] = False, the connection
wasn't in autocommit mode but Django pretended it was.

Thanks Anssi for analysing this issue.

Refs #17062.
Added license info for the weakref backports
Merge pull request #2163 from apollo13/signals

Signals
Fixed flake8 issues.
Fixed #21453 -- Enabled autocommit before calling init_connection_state.

Also ensured the transaction state is clean on Oracle while I was there.

This change cannot be backported to 1.6 because it's
backwards-incompatible for custom database backends.
Restored a test broken by overzealous PEP8 cleanup
Fixed a test that was failing with PostGIS.

Fixed #21452 again.

Forward-port of 18d75e07 from stable/1.6.x.
Used a regular lock for app registry population.

Since the app registry is always populated before the first request is
processed, the situation described in #18251 for the old app cache
cannot happen any more.

Refs #18251, #21628.
Fixed #21477 -- Renamed db to using in pre/post_migrate signals.
Fixed #21770 -- Updated autocomplete for app-loading.

Thanks dfunckt for the report.
Add further workarounds for HTMLParser with Python 3.4.

Python 3.5 will change the default value of convert_charrefs, so 3.4
gives warnings if it's not present. This is slightly technical as 2.7
doesn't have the kwarg. Thankfully, we already have a bunch of
workarounds for different versions.
Undelete the `return True` removed in 4e0a2fe.

This is quite important otherwise we don't close our connections to the
SMTP server.
Be more careful about closing connections in mail tests.
Negligible change to my bio in docs/internals/committers.txt