Andrew Godwin had raised £17K out of £2.5K expected in order to implement (I believe excellent) Django migrations that are now part of the official repository:

Andrew Godwin had raised £17K out of £2.5K expected in order to implement (I believe excellent) Django migrations that are now part of the official repository: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/andrewgodwin/schema-migrations-for-django https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/andrewgodwin/schema-mig... Neither do I think that raising $50K for Python interpreter would be an issue. PS: I don't find Django an excellent ORM per se. On the other hand it's highly pragmatic, and their implementation of automatically-generated migrations have saved a good chunk of my time.