= Little, easy improvements =

Here's a list of selected improvements that we'd like to make to Django. The easiest fixes can be found via the **"Easy" tickets** link on [https://dashboard.djangoproject.com/ dashboard.djangoproject.com].

If you don't feel like writing Python, you can always help with [query:status!=closed&needs_docs=1&order=priority patches needing documentation] or, between coding and documenting, you can give a hand with the [query:status!=closed&needs_tests=1&order=priority patches needing tests], or [query:status!=closed&needs_better_patch=1&order=priority patches that need some other improvement].

Below are some more substantial changes that have been started but abandoned and could probably be finished without too much difficulty.

||Ticket||Description||
||#20223||[https://github.com/django/django/pull/4202 Fixed #20223 -- Added keep_lazy() as a replacement for allow_lazy().]||
||#21429||[https://github.com/django/django/pull/3467 Fixed #21429 -- Added builtin logging support to BaseCommand.]||
||#11154||[https://github.com/django/django/pull/4681 Fixed #11154, #17904 -- Added creation of proxy model permissions]||
||#25170||[https://github.com/django/django/pull/5052 Fixed #25170 -- Made SimpleTestCase.assertXMLEqual() ignore whitespace outside of tags.]||
||#10827||[https://github.com/django/django/pull/5184 Fixed #10827 -- Made create_permissions() clear the ContentType cache.]||
||#24675||[https://github.com/django/django/pull/4538 Fixed #24675 --Implemented an option to avoid unnecessary queries to MySQL since MySQL 5.6]||
||#25005||[https://github.com/django/django/pull/4902 Fixed #25005 - Made date and time fields with auto_now/auto_now_add use effective default]||

Feel free to reach out to Tim Graham (timograham on #django-dev IRC) if you have any questions about these tasks.