[coffeefirst]

Yes. This is a bad idea.

A better way to do this is as a cookiecutter template. Go ahead and include everything you need as INSTALLED_APPS. Auth is pluggable, middleware is configurable, his support module is a classic use case for a pluggable app... Include pytest and Python-Allauth with sane defaults.

I'm struggling to see anything that wouldn't work better—benefiting from all the good work in the Jazzband universe and automatically getting the upstream security upgrades—without a fork.