It's great to see schema migrations move into Django core. South is great, but Django will be much better with schema migrations baked in, especially for newcomers.<p>For anyone coming to Django from Rails, South seems anomalous. Outside of database migrations, Django is a very battery-included framework, so it's weird that until 1.7 data migrations were handled by third party tools (mostly South) and not mentioned at all in the Django documentation.<p>This is a big step for Django. I'm excited for the (not too distant) future when 1.7 is the official release.