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
15629	django admin does not use ordering for foreign keys dropdown	Brillgen Developers	nobody	"Versions: Admin of 1.2 as well as the 1.3 RC
Conditions:Model 2 has FK to Model 1. Model 1 has an ordering parameter (used in list display). 

Expected Behavior: ordering should be used for showing the dropdown in Model 2
Acual Behaviour: dropdown in Model 2 for items in Model 1 shows in model meta sorting order

Reason: if the model meta sort order is used all queries have an extra overhead. Since the admin is just using an ordering parameter that it itself uses for the list display, there is no overhead or incongruity. 

This can always be an additional parameter of course.

I would be happy to try and submit a patch against the 1.3rc as long as the community can bless this as a valid bug/enhancement that will be accepted into django main."	Bug	closed	contrib.admin	1.2	Normal	duplicate			Accepted	0	0	0	0	0	0