Sorry for reviving this thread. Are the auth mixins fork from ogier going to be commited to the django master branch anytime soon? I'd like to "officially" use it. Is there any documentation available? Thanks in advance.
Am Dienstag, 3. April 2012 02:35:41 UTC+2 schrieb Jacob Kaplan-Moss: > > Hi folks -- > > I've written up a proposal for how *I* would like to address refactoring > auth.user: https://gist.github.com/2245327. > > In essence, this does two things: > > * Vastly "prunes" the required fields on auth.user. The only things left > are an "identifier" (which could be username, email, url, uuid, whatever), > and a password. > * Introduces a new "profile" system that provides a way to contribute > extra related fields. Multiple profiles are supported, along with some > syntactic sugar for dealing with multiple profiles in a reasonably reusable > way. > > And that's about it. I'm deliberately trying to find a middle ground > between "do the minimum to allow people to move on" and "throw out and > rewrite django.contrib.auth entirely". I'm not expecting everyone to be > thrilled by this idea, but I'm hoping that this is "Good Enough" for almost > everyone. > > For more please see the document. Please do try to read the whole thing: > I've had a few rounds of feedback incorporated already, and there's even an > FAQ at the end. > > I'm not using BDFL fiat here, at least not yet. This is a proposal, and I > very much want to hear feedback, objections, and alternatives. I'm > particularly interested in hearing from people who've got complicated auth > needs and think this absolutely won't work for them. > > I *have* reviewed all the other proposals and I'm between -0 and -1 on all > of them. This means that if you don't like my proposal, you'll probably > have to come up with a complete *new* idea to have any chance of getting my > vote. > > Thanks! > > Jacob > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/django-developers/-/wprtljceILUJ. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en.
