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You say "Schema migration with Django has had a long and complex history". Can you explain, even briefly, why migrations haven't been a part of Django's core so far? I was under the impression that it was a deliberate design choice. What made you change your mind now?

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The basic stumbling block as I understood it was that there were no consensus on how to build a good migrations system. Instead of just picking one system and bundling it into Django the decision was to do iteration in third party libraries. We got dmigrations, django-evolution, and south, and over time south won the race...

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