> how many developer hours have been spent trying to organize settings, or deal with migrations, or setting up deployment scripts, or coming up with a sensible

> how many developer hours have been spent trying to organize settings, or deal with migrations, or setting up deployment scripts, or coming up with a sensible project layout Countless. Django prefers configuration over convention. I think it's because there is too much focus on the reusable apps concept. It would be great if it was a little bit the other way around.