> Are people working on such things? (I know the answer is partially yes, > because I've noticed various efforts underway here and there.) What's > the prognosis?
As you may or may not have noticed, these kinds of plugins are called "apps" in Django, and are more or less pluggable into any Django project. Yes, people are working on these. Community members are hard at work redoing apps in Django. Someone is doing a photo gallery (it's actually available from SVN [1]), someone else is working on more extensive user management (e.g. user registration), someone is working on a forum, I'm working on a weblog engine. You should subscribe to the Community page on the Django site for info on all of these projects, or hang out in #django. As for "blessing", you have to realize Django is quite young! People are still working on it, and people are still working with it, getting to know it. For apps to be developed that are blessed as common well-rounded solutions will obviously take some time, so I'm not sure when you can start to expect those. If you're in a position to do such a thing, bounties would be great of course. I for one would be interested in seeing if I could help you out. Regards, Manuzhai [1] https://simon.bofh.ms/cgi-bin/trac-django-projects.cgi
