There was an interesting chat-log[1] someone posted on /r/Django on reddit talking about dealing with South migration merging/conflicts, and other issues that crop up in a multi-person project.

I'm curious about the best practices for data-migrations as well; I've seen a few places[2][3] suggest that wrapping your fixture loading "./manage.py loaddata <fixture>" in datamigrations is better than leaving it up to initial_data.{yaml,json}

Edit: here's the one I was thinking of: South common pitfalls: http://andrewingram.net/2012/dec/common-pitfalls-django-sout...

[1] https://gist.github.com/sjl/4438002

[2] http://djangosnippets.org/snippets/2897/

[3] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5472925/django-loading-da...