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28236	Integrate dj-database-url into Django	Kenneth Reitz	Tom Forbes	"dj-database-url gives Django developers two main things: 

1. the ability to represent their database settings via a string (a-la sqlalchemy); very useful for environmnent variables and 12factor apps. 
2. it will automatically use the DATABASE_URL environment variable, if present. 

I'm not sure if #2 is appropriate for Django Core (but it would be nice, as Gunicorn supports both PORT and WEB_CONCURRENCY), but I know #1 is perfect. This plan has previously been discussed (at a conference, DjangoCon EU in Zurich, long ago) and approved by JKM, before his role at Heroku, if that is helpful information. 

I think this change would vastly improve the usability of Django, and would be an excellent and simple move for the project.

Many thanks for your consideration. <3

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Kenneth Reitz

P.S. There is no ""Settings"" component in the issue tracker, that I can find. "	New feature	assigned	Core (Other)	1.11	Normal		settings, dj-database-url, database_url	jacobian@… Tom Forbes	Someday/Maybe	1	0	0	0	0	1