Little, easy improvements

Here's a list of various improvements that we'd like to make to Django. Some are trivial, some are a bit more substantial, but all are easy enough to be a quick project for people who want to get involved with Django development. If you don't feel like a python coder you can always help with documentation needing patches or, between coding and documenting, you can give a hand with the patches needing tests, or patches that need some other improvement.

As you see, there are lots of things you can do to improve Django and get you involved with it!

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Open

Project	Description	Taker?	Status
Test one of the active branches	Branches are large or experimental features that are not yet ready for general use. If you see one you like, testing is a great way to help get finished and included in Django.	perennial
#2407	Test the CGI Handler		Needs testing
#2998	django.utils.dateformat.py uses untranslated text
#3346	Document that Admin search_fields can be from related models
#834	authentication documentation should document the viewfuncs in django.views.auth.login
#2873	Replace "ellington" references in django.conf.urls.registration with django ones
#2762	Implement "copyright" element into Rss2.0 framework (and appropriate elements in Atom etc)	Jonathan (dot) Buchanan (at gmail dot com)	Patch added to ticket

Finished

Project	Description	Taker?	Status
Unit tests for default template filters	Every template filter (see django/core/template/defaultfilters.py) should have unit tests in tests/othertests/templates.py. Most do not have tests.	Luke Plant, L.Plant.98@…	Done in [1811]
Unit tests for default template tags	Every template tag (see django/template/defaulttags.py) should have unit tests in tests/othertests/templates.py. Some are missing.	Nick Efford, nick (at) efford.net	Mostly done in [1944] and completed by others since then
Copy-friendly traceback on error pages	The debug error pages should provide an extra traceback solely for copying and pasting. The current traceback is really cool but doesn't lend itself to easy copy-and-paste for, say, the pastebin.	Joao Paulo Farias, jpaulofarias at gmail dot com	Done, see #1420
Terminal colors in django-admin	The django-admin.py utility would be friendlier and slicker if it used terminal colors.	Scott Lees	Done in [2585] (was #1491)
Tab-completion actions for django-admin	django-admin.py would be much cooler if it would tab complete actions and models.	paolo <paolo@…>	Done #1240
Quick Copy to pastebin	Create a one click link for users to send the "copy friendly errors" to ​http://django.pastebin.com with the input fields filled in with the traceback, ready for the user to hit "submit"	Dirk Datzert, dummy at habmalnefrage dot de	#2437