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(if anyone has questions, feel free to throw them at me here; I'll put on my release-manager hat and do my best to give useful answers)

> Multi-database support

Its about time that it will officially, out of the box, support this important feature. :)

[edit] direct link to feature list

http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/Version1.2Features

I completely agree! If you want to help us make sure this happens, please check out the multidb branch, give it a spin, and report any bugs: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/branches/soc2009/mu....

I'll gladly do so. Thx for the link.

Indeed, any bug reports, ways to make it better, and best of all: patches welcome! (I'm the guy who wrote it)

I like the idea of a smarter template if tag but after having looked at the snippets page it doesn't look quite like what I was hoping for. I was looking for something more the tornado framework's implementation.

I prefer tornado's template system in general. It's much closer to actual python in terms of syntax and the ability to pass functions from a request handler to the template is sweet!

One of the stated goals of Django's template system is to be "safe" - to ensure that template developers can't cause too much damage. The Tornado model essentially allows arbitrary Python code to be evaluated, which isn't necessarily a bad thing but would break the contract Django has already established. I think the smarter {% if %} statement proposal is much closer to Django's philosophy.

> Support for non-relational databases: Tokyo Cabinet/Tyrant, MongoDB, Cassandra, Google Bigtable (AppEngine, #10192), Amazon SimpleDB, CouchDB, etc

Is the intent to create some-kind of common framework that will work with more than one DB? Or to somehow select/prioritize one particular DB and support that?

Keep in mind: these are proposed features -- as in, proposed by anyone with enough smarts to edit a wiki page -- not necessarily ones that'll make it into 1.2.

That proposal, in particular, is a Big Honking Deal with basically no concrete proposal, specification, or working code. In other words, the chance that Django will grow non-relational database support by March is... not so good.

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