On a related note, Does anyone have any experience with schema migrations in 1.7? Is it similar to South in function and performance? In other words, should I keep using South, or try to learn to use the new implementation? Do I need to be a guinea pig?
South will not be available in Django 1.7. Django 1.7 migrations have been developed by the same person that has developed South and can be see as an official successor to South. Therefore you have no choice but to use the new migrations.
The instructions in the docs cover how to migrate an existing Django project. What's more interesting to me is whether it'll be possible to have a reusable app with migrations that is Django 1.7 and Django 1.6-1.4 compatible. Sounds like not.
