The fact that it's not obvious is also a good point.

I recently brought up the documentation issue on the mailing list and received a pretty encouraging response from Mr. Kaplan-Moss himself:

http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers/browse_thre...

Django 1.3 is a tightening of the bolts release so I am going through and updating where improvements are needed and patching where I feel capable. Perhaps you or others would like to improve the documentation as well?