= Django 1.2 Features =

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This page lists features which have been proposed for development/inclusion in Django 1.2. So far no decisions have been made regarding any of these features. See [wiki:Version1.2Roadmap] for information on the process and definition of terms.

== Features under consideration ==
  * Multi-database support (Alex Gaynor's GSoC project)
  * Admin UI Enhancements (Zain Memon's GSoC project)
  * Improved/reworked CsrfProtection (see #9977, #10816)
  * i18n improvements (Marc Garcia's GSoC project)
  * Add {% doctype %} and {% field %} template tags from http://github.com/simonw/django-html/
  * Smarter {% if %} tag from http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/1350/
  * Syndication feed views and better Atom support: http://github.com/bfirsh/syndication-view/
  * Search support in the ORM: http://github.com/bfirsh/django/tree/search
  * Support for non-relational databases: Tokyo Cabinet/Tyrant, MongoDB, Cassandra, Google Bigtable (AppEngine, #10192), Amazon SimpleDB, CouchDB, etc
  * Add a method to the orm to create Model instances from raw sql queries (useful when the orm is limiting you)
  * Add a generic "official" way to create a REST API; so far there are quite a bunch of pluggables, with varying levels of "completeness", documentation and efficiency, and they're quite hard to choose from.
  * Make easier to mantain / deploy default settings.py by either:
    * include localsettings at the end, with the recommended approach of putting DATABASE_* settings in localsettings.py
    * or: if DEBUG: { some database settings } else: { other database settings }
  * integrate some DVCS in django-admin.py, perhaps Mercurial or Git. This would make it easier to adopt and collaborate on Django projects. (This is stolen from Rails)
  * Complete comment moderation by documenting existing approval process (#9819) and/or by adding admin actions (#11625) to the `CommentsAdmin`.
  * Extra template tags and filters (http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers/browse_thread/thread/2045a50970d6a883)
  * Replace get_absolute_url (http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/ReplacingGetAbsoluteUrl)
  * Make working with inline formsets easier (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/442040/pre-populate-an-inline-formset, as per James: ''...the way the model formsets work just make this more trouble than it's usually worth, but with a bit of API cleanup I think it could be made extremely easy.'', also http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers/browse_thread/thread/f9aae709a7fda689)
   * Allow inclusion of inlines in fieldsets (admin)
  * #17 Identity mapping in the ORM (Work has been done to this end by David Cramer, here: http://github.com/dcramer/django-idmapper/tree/master)
  * #342 Read-only form fields
  * #373 Multi-part primary keys
  * #399 Support 8-byte integer DB-fields (`bigint`)
  * #494 Option for classes on admin inlines
  * #2443 Implement `DurationFields`
  * #3011 Allow for extendable auth_user module
  * #3349, #6587 Better template tag loading
  * #3512 Add "required" & "error" CSS classes to form rows in as_* methods
  * #3569 Implement Atom Publishing Protocol
  * #4604 Message Passing For Anonymous Users
  * #4656 Full serialization
  * #5833 Custom `FilterSpecs`
  * #6148 Add support for database schemas
  * #6262 Support caching compiled templates
  * #6378 Capture arbitrary output as a template variable (or add a capture ttag)
  * #6460 Multilingual Content in the db
  * #6630 Fieldsets for newforms
  * #6735 Class-based generic views
  * #6845 Model validation (Honza Kral's GSoC project)
  * #6903 Admin app: Go back to old change_list view after saving model instance
  * #7539 Add ON DELETE and ON UPDATE support
  * #8896, #11647 Support for subdomains in the url patterns, to allow easy reversing (or better: to allow reversing at all ;))
  * #9200 Session-based `FormWizard`
  * #9289 Swedish (se) localflavor
  * #10476 Support database-level autocommit mode in Postgresql <= 8.1
  * #10587, #1480, #2626 Store datetime values as UTC, handle them consistently regardless of RDBMS, platform and make things easier for multi-timezone applications.
  * #10752 Enhanced Bash Completion
  * #10871 Support for input arguments on admin actions.
  * #11010 Support row-level permissions by updating the User-Object and Authbackends, to take an optional `object` parameter, so 3rd party Apps can implement the functionality easily.
  * #11402 exists() method on `QuerySets`
  * #11463 Vietnamese translation
  * #11156 Remove unnecessary savepoints with Oracle
  * #11698 Add Django Debug Toolbar to contrib.

== Lieutenants and Committers ==

The lieutenants and committers for each feature will be decided when the feature list is formalized.