This is a great step for them to be taking as they're getting ready for 1.3 development (for the uninformed, 1.3 is mostly going to be for closing the massive amount of tickets/bugs that Django has accumulated, and generally cleaning up the code base with even more documentation). One of the biggest concerns brought up by multiple people at this year's DjangoCon was the process of getting something into Django's trunk as an outsider.

Great to see them addressing the issue head-on so soon!