I would say that django_extensions is handy enough to have it included (mainly for the sake of shell_plus and runserver_plus), South is invaluable (although migrations are going into the core in near future[0]), but others—it very much depends on the project.
sekizai is one I've never heard about before. Judging from the first sight, I think it can make templating more flexible, but at the cost of increased complexity.
Earlier I thought that reversion is great to have by default, and I was adding it to every project. Then, as I recall, mysterious errors started popping up one day in one project after Django update. They turned out to have something to do with reversion compatibility. I looked into it and found that we had no use cases for reversion—I could simply throw it away without any consequences, which I promptly did.
I've used grappelli for a while, but in the end I found its UI less usable than native Django admin UI. (Recently I stumbled across http://djangosuit.com/ — this one does seem more functional, although I've never used it in my projects yet.)
I would say that django_extensions is handy enough to have it included (mainly for the sake of shell_plus and runserver_plus), South is invaluable (although migrations are going into the core in near future[0]), but others—it very much depends on the project.
sekizai is one I've never heard about before. Judging from the first sight, I think it can make templating more flexible, but at the cost of increased complexity.
Earlier I thought that reversion is great to have by default, and I was adding it to every project. Then, as I recall, mysterious errors started popping up one day in one project after Django update. They turned out to have something to do with reversion compatibility. I looked into it and found that we had no use cases for reversion—I could simply throw it away without any consequences, which I promptly did.
I've used grappelli for a while, but in the end I found its UI less usable than native Django admin UI. (Recently I stumbled across http://djangosuit.com/ — this one does seem more functional, although I've never used it in my projects yet.)
[0] https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/migrations/