Proposed features for Django 1.1

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Feature proposals for 1.1 are frozen as of November 13th. A draft list of accepted features will be posted shortly.

Admin

• Admin-01 Bulk-edit on changelist pages.
• Admin-02 Integrate ​django-batchadmin
• Admin-03 Make the admin use a url resolver
• Admin-04 Improve flexibility of admin.autodiscover for custom admin sites
• Admin-05 ModelAdmin should allow for overriding of ForeignKey/ManyToMany options
• Admin-06 ​Read-only fields (applies to forms as well)
• Admin-07 Custom FilterSpecs
• Admin-08 ​Make filters in admin changelists persistent (#6903)

Auth

• Auth-01 ​AnonymousUser that you can set specific permissions for
• Auth-02 ​Allow for extendable auth_user module (add an abstract base class for User too)

Contrib

Including packages proposed for addition to contrib.

• Contrib-01 Add a session based form wizard (see also ​this django-dev thread)
• Contrib-02 ​customizability of contrib.comments (see also #8630)
• Contrib-03 Inclusion of comment-utils
• Contrib-04 Make comment templatetags use get_comment_app like the post view does
• Contrib-05 ​Integrate GSOC2008 djangosearch as django.contrib.search
• Contrib-06 Message Passing For Anonymous Users
• Contrib-07 Honour the REMOTE_USER provided by the server
• Contrib-08 Implement Atom Publishing Protocol (and related #3569)
• Contrib-09 ​Media management for apps
• Contrib-10 ​django-logging
• Contrib-11 ​Breadcrumbs
• Contrib-12 ​Signed cookies (​http://code.google.com/p/django-signedcookies)
• Contrib-13 Cached DB session backend

Forms

• Form-01 ​Selectable HTML output for forms/fields) (​see also)
• Form-02 ​django.forms.SafeForm - forms with built-in CSRF protection

Models/ORM

• ORM-01 ​ORM aggregation
• ORM-02 ​Object history
• ORM-03 Model validation
• ORM-04 ​Public-facing multiple database API
• ORM-05 ORM identity map
• ORM-06 Expression support in QuerySet.update()
• ORM-07 ​Denormalized model fields (#8946)
• ORM-08 SchemaEvolution
• ORM-09 ​Manager.update_or_create() and Model.update() (#3182)
• ORM-10 QuerySet.select_for_update() method
• ORM-11 QuerySet.cache() method
• ORM-12 Allow the use of property() in fields
• ORM-13 Support for 'DISTINCT ON' queries with QuerySet.distinct()
• ORM-14 Exclude fields in a SELECT (QuerySet.defer())
• ORM-15 ​Day-of-week filter for date/datetime Fields (#7672)
• ORM-16 ​Native autocommit option for Postgresql backend (#3460)
• ORM-17 ​{% default %} clause for {% for %} loops (#6398).
• ORM-18 Add signals to ManyRelatedManager
• ORM-19 Add support for database schemas
• ORM-20 ​implement force_insert and force_update in ModelForm.save() (#8672)
• ORM-21 Rename Model.Meta.verbose_name to label, like django.forms
• ORM-22 Ordering field and revitalize order_with_respect_to (See ​A, ​B)
• ORM-23 INSTALLED_APPS refactoring (app() object)

Templates

• Template-01 Extend inclusion tag syntax to allow custom templates
• Template-02 Enhanced simple-tag decorator (access to context and easy block tags) (see also ​django-dev thread)
• Template-03 Add keyword support to simple_tag and inclusion_tag
• Template-04 Refactor django.template (see also: ​these ​django-dev ​threads)
• Template-05 Namespace support for template libraries
• Template-06 Better template tag loading (#6587, #3349)

Testing

• Test-01 Follow redirect chains on the Test Client
• Test-02 Disable all e-mail sending for debugging
• Test-03 Make the Django testcases use transactions to rollback DB changes created in a test
• Test-04 ​Integrate django-testmaker

Views

• View-01 Class-Based Generic Views
• View-02 Add RequestContext(request) to render_to_response as default argument (i.e. make it behave more like direct_to_template generic view). (needs ticket)
• View-03 ​`wsgi.file_wrapper` for large file serving (see also #2131, #7894, #7581, [PEP 333 ​http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0333/#optional-platform-specific-file-handling], and ​another thread)
• View-04 ​URL resolver refactor
• View-05 ​Decouple authentication from calling a view

Not in consideration

Small/just bugs

Features proposed on this list that area just bugs to be fixed or really tiny feature additions that are not controversial in any way. They're still here for posterity, but have no real role in the feature proposal process.

• Make select_related work with reverse onetoones
• Add an append method to ErrorDict
• Remove blank spaces with strip when validating data
• #9124, #6231
• Wrap help_text in "<span class="helptext"></span>", like errors in "<ul class="errorlist"></ul>" in HTML output. (needs ticket)
• Support clearing FileFields in the admin if blank=True
• ​ModelAdmin hook for customising the "show on site" button (#8261)
• Fix missing proxies throughout django.core.files.* -- See: tickets #9344 and #9404, and also ​on the dev-list.
• #5245
• ​Avoid double imports (see 8193)
• #7980
• #9015

Rejected procedurally

These are proposed features that, as of the close date for proposals, lacked concrete proposals, proof-of-concept implementations, or details needed to start implementing.

• Add the ability to add fields to admin forms and the ability to intercept form submissions so the values of those fields could be accessed. This way admin plugins could be developed. [No concrete proposal]
• Please make Django installable with easy_install (ticket #6972, #3812) [Will be fixed with the 1.0.1 release].
• ​Create a benchmark to measure the impact changes have to code [No concrete proposal; doesn't need to be part of the release process reguardless]
• Multilingual support in the db. There are some projects that could be integrated into the trunk as django-multilingual. [No concrete proposal]