I just want to register a similar issue. Had opened a ticket, #10057,
with patch on a trivial matter as http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/10057.
Haven't found even any comments regarding its feasibility etc. Can't
figure out whether people are engaged for some milestone coming but
this seems to
> Anybody can review tickets (shouldn't review your own, for obvious
> reasons). So if there are patches out there, start going through them.
>
> The current timing is significant. Once we get a couple of things
> knocked off and 1.1-alpha out the door, a few of us (and me, in
> particular) will
