Migration fails to load models - Django 1.8.5 Django-CMS 3.1

[source3]

The following error occurs running 'python manage.py migrate'. Upgrading from Django 1.5/django-cms 2.4. I tired migrating from south as explained in https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/topics/migrations/#upgrading-from-south and https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/topics/migrations/#libraries-third-party-apps. Did not work. Same error.

Any suggestions or solutions is much appreciated.

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "manage.py", line 10, in
execute_from_command_line(sys.argv)
File "/ebs/localdealsmagazine/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/init.py", line 351, in execute_from_command_line
utility.execute()
File "/ebs/localdealsmagazine/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/init.py", line 325, in execute
django.setup()
File "/ebs/localdealsmagazine/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/init.py", line 18, in setup
apps.populate(settings.INSTALLED_APPS)
File "/ebs/localdealsmagazine/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/apps/registry.py", line 108, in populate
app_config.import_models(all_models)
File "/ebs/localdealsmagazine/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/apps/config.py", line 198, in import_models
self.models_module = import_module(models_module_name)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/importlib/init.py", line 37, in import_module
import(name)
File "/ebs/localdealsmagazine/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/form_designer/contrib/cms_plugins/form_designer_form/models.py", line 1, in
from form_designer.models import FormDefinition
File "/ebs/localdealsmagazine/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/form_designer/models.py", line 19, in
User = get_user_model()
File "/ebs/localdealsmagazine/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/contrib/auth/init.py", line 150, in get_user_model
return django_apps.get_model(settings.AUTH_USER_MODEL)
File "/ebs/localdealsmagazine/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/apps/registry.py", line 199, in get_model
self.check_models_ready()
File "/ebs/localdealsmagazine/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/apps/registry.py", line 131, in check_models_ready
raise AppRegistryNotReady("Models aren't loaded yet.")
django.core.exceptions.AppRegistryNotReady: Models aren't loaded yet.

settings.py:
INSTALLED_APPS = (
...
'picklefield',
'form_designer.contrib.cms_plugins.form_designer_form',
'form_designer',
...
)

MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (
...
'form_designer.middleware.RedirectMiddleware',
)

[source3]

Fixed. Warning, I have not fully tested the fix below.

Django 1.8

• uses ugettext_lazy not ugettext. Replaced all occurances of ugettext with ugettext_lazy in cms_plugins.py, settings.py, forms.py, models.py, admin.py, and views.py
• replaced get_user_model with auth_user_model in models.py
• ModelForm requires either 'fields' or 'exclude' in the meta. Added fields = 'all' in forms.py where two classes subclass from ModelForm.
• removed the middleware class as shown above.
• Copied ../migrations to ../migrations_south. Then removed all files excecpt '_ init.py _' in the migrations folder.

Then ran 'python mange.py makemigrations' then 'python migrate.py form_designer'.

I submitted patches for the above files. Not to good with github so I hope I proposed the changes correctly.

[andreav]

Same here.
Django==1.8.7 + django-cms==3.2.0

Any chance the patch will be merged?
Thanks.

[theblackcat102]

Same here, Please merge the patch as soon as possible

[barseghyanartur]

Guys, seriously, don't you see the project is dead? Last commit has been done about 3 years ago (same goes for the last issue closed). Either (1) fork and register on PyPI under different name or (2) switch to another package.