That said, as a full-time Django developer, the headline resinated with me, although I can't put my finger on exactly why. It feels like the last 3 releases (1.3, 1.4, the 1.5 betas) have been lacking in terms of their vision and scope.
Some things I'd appreciate seeing:
* Cleaning out django.contrib, and shifting to a more modular methodology for not-quite-core functionality.
* The default settings.py is just downright laughable compared to what one typically uses for production. Rolling your own environment-specific files (ala local_settings.py) could also use some attention.
* Django admin is still a killer app, but the visual design is long in the tooth. Integrating twitter bootstrap, Zurb's foundation (or any modern HTML/CSS framework) would be a huge improvement.
* Merging South (or any db migration system) into core would be great.
* Revisiting management commands (both the layout and the features) would be great.
* Easier/cleaner support for eventlet or gevent would be nice. At least at the routing and view level.
* PKs with some sort of UUID
* A vision for loosely coupling apps together. 1.5 will be including custom User models, which is handy, but doing something globally would be great. It will always be up to individual app developers to get to the last mile, but some sort of plumbing in Django core would be very handy.