Re: GSoC Project: Enhancedaut.user

2010-04-03 Thread Flo
On Apr 2, 3:49 pm, Russell Keith-Magee wrote: > On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 7:28 PM, Flo wrote: > > > On 1 Apr., 16:04, Russell Keith-Magee wrote: > >> On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 10:15 PM, Flo wrote: > > >> > On Mar 31, 3:27 pm, Russell Keith-Magee > >> > wrote: > > >> >> But under your proposal, yo

Re: GSoC Project: Enhancedaut.user

2010-04-02 Thread Russell Keith-Magee
On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 7:28 PM, Flo wrote: > > > On 1 Apr., 16:04, Russell Keith-Magee wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 10:15 PM, Flo wrote: >> >> > On Mar 31, 3:27 pm, Russell Keith-Magee >> > wrote: >> >> >> But under your proposal, you *can't* use your own permission model. If >> >> BaseUse

Re: GSoC Project: Enhancedaut.user

2010-04-02 Thread Flo
On 1 Apr., 16:04, Russell Keith-Magee wrote: > On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 10:15 PM, Flo wrote: > > > On Mar 31, 3:27 pm, Russell Keith-Magee > > wrote: > > >> But under your proposal, you *can't* use your own permission model. If > >> BaseUser inherits from BasePermissions, and every application

Re: GSoC Project: Enhancedaut.user

2010-04-01 Thread Russell Keith-Magee
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 10:15 PM, Flo wrote: > > > On Mar 31, 3:27 pm, Russell Keith-Magee > wrote: > >> But under your proposal, you *can't* use your own permission model. If >> BaseUser inherits from BasePermissions, and every application with a >> custom user needs to inherit from BaseUser, th

Re: GSoC Project: Enhancedaut.user

2010-03-31 Thread Flo
On Mar 31, 3:27 pm, Russell Keith-Magee wrote: > But under your proposal, you *can't* use your own permission model. If > BaseUser inherits from BasePermissions, and every application with a > custom user needs to inherit from BaseUser, then you never get the > opportunity to use your own permi

Re: GSoC Project: Enhancedaut.user

2010-03-31 Thread Russell Keith-Magee
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 8:48 PM, Flo wrote: > > On Mar 31, 12:48 pm, Russell Keith-Magee > wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 4:35 PM, Flo wrote: >> >> > Here an updated, fresh summary: >> >> > Plan >> > --- >> >> > Add an abstraction layer to the auth.User class >> >> > Method >> > -

Re: GSoC Project: Enhancedaut.user

2010-03-31 Thread Flo
On Mar 31, 12:48 pm, Russell Keith-Magee wrote: > On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 4:35 PM, Flo wrote: > > > Here an updated, fresh summary: > > > Plan > > --- > > > Add an abstraction layer to the auth.User class > > > Method > > - > > > An extra abstraction layer will be added for the User

Re: GSoC Project: Enhancedaut.user

2010-03-31 Thread Russell Keith-Magee
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 4:35 PM, Flo wrote: > > Here an updated, fresh summary: > > > > Plan > --- > > Add an abstraction layer to the auth.User class > > > > Method > - > > An extra abstraction layer will be added for the User class in form of > a BaseUser class. The BaseUser class wi

Re: GSoC Project: Enhancedaut.user

2010-03-31 Thread Flo
Here an updated, fresh summary: Plan --- Add an abstraction layer to the auth.User class Method - An extra abstraction layer will be added for the User class in form of a BaseUser class. The BaseUser class will consist of : * the whole permission stuff (user_permissions, get_

Re: GSoC Project: Enhancedaut.user

2010-03-30 Thread Russell Keith-Magee
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 2:09 AM, d3f3nd3r wrote: > >> Well.. how about you tell me whether you're going to pursue the >> project before I spend a bunch of time giving feedback when you don't >> actually want it? >> >> As a top sheet summary - To be brutally honest, I'm still not >> convinced you'v

Re: GSoC Project: Enhancedaut.user

2010-03-30 Thread d3f3nd3r
> Well.. how about you tell me whether you're going to pursue the > project before I spend a bunch of time giving feedback when you don't > actually want it? > > As a top sheet summary - To be brutally honest, I'm still not > convinced you've got a coherent plan that would be acceptable to > Djang

Re: GSoC Project: Enhancedaut.user

2010-03-27 Thread Russell Keith-Magee
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 7:16 PM, d3f3nd3r wrote: > >> Like I said originally - this is a big, hard problem. It's definitely >> a problem worth solving, but because it's a difficult problem, it's >> going to be a lot harder to convince us that you're the right person >> for the job. >> > > So any c

Re: GSoC Project: Enhancedaut.user

2010-03-27 Thread d3f3nd3r
> Like I said originally - this is a big, hard problem. It's definitely > a problem worth solving, but because it's a difficult problem, it's > going to be a lot harder to convince us that you're the right person > for the job. > So any comments or suggestions to my answers in the last post? I do

Re: GSoC Project: Enhancedaut.user

2010-03-26 Thread Russell Keith-Magee
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 6:34 PM, d3f3nd3r wrote: > > > On Mar 26, 8:34 am, Russell Keith-Magee > wrote: >> On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 3:22 AM, d3f3nd3r wrote: >> >> > On Mar 25, 4:19 pm, Russell Keith-Magee >> > wrote: >> >> >> Firstly, Backwards compatibility. contrib.auth is a major component in

Re: GSoC Project: Enhancedaut.user

2010-03-26 Thread d3f3nd3r
On Mar 26, 8:34 am, Russell Keith-Magee wrote: > On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 3:22 AM, d3f3nd3r wrote: > > > On Mar 25, 4:19 pm, Russell Keith-Magee > > wrote: > > >> Firstly, Backwards compatibility. contrib.auth is a major component in > >> many, if not most existing Django installations. If you'

Re: GSoC Project: Enhancedaut.user

2010-03-26 Thread d3f3nd3r
On Mar 26, 8:34 am, Russell Keith-Magee wrote: > On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 3:22 AM, d3f3nd3r wrote: > > > On Mar 25, 4:19 pm, Russell Keith-Magee > > wrote: > > >> Firstly, Backwards compatibility. contrib.auth is a major component in > >> many, if not most existing Django installations. If you'

Re: GSoC Project: Enhancedaut.user

2010-03-26 Thread Russell Keith-Magee
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 3:22 AM, d3f3nd3r wrote: > > On Mar 25, 4:19 pm, Russell Keith-Magee > wrote: >> >> Firstly, Backwards compatibility. contrib.auth is a major component in >> many, if not most existing Django installations. If you're proposing >> *any* change, the existing code needs to be

GSoC Project: Enhancedaut.user

2010-03-25 Thread d3f3nd3r
Hi everyone, I removed my previous post from the group, because of bad formatting, sorry for that. I'm planning to apply for the GSoC Enhanced auth.user project. I worked on several Django based projects before (hackerspace os (http:// code.google.com/p/hackerspace-os/) is probably the biggest on

Re: GSoC Project: Enhancedaut.user

2010-03-25 Thread d3f3nd3r
On Mar 25, 4:19 pm, Russell Keith-Magee wrote: > > First up, this is probably the most ambitious project on the proposal > list. When I warn that this is a tough issue, I'm not kidding. This is > gonna be *hard*. With a capital Huh. There are all sorts of technical > issues, and a couple of poli

Re: GSoC Project: Enhancedaut.user

2010-03-25 Thread Russell Keith-Magee
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 4:27 PM, d3f3nd3r wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I'm planning to apply for the GSoC Enhanced auth.user project. I > worked on several Django based projects before. > (hackerspace os (http://code.google.com/p/hackerspace-os/) is probably > the > biggest one (used by the Austri

GSoC Project: Enhancedaut.user

2010-03-25 Thread d3f3nd3r
Hello everyone, I'm planning to apply for the GSoC Enhanced auth.user project. I worked on several Django based projects before. (hackerspace os (http://code.google.com/p/hackerspace-os/) is probably the biggest one (used by the Austrian hackerspace metalab (http:// metalab.at)) and a lot of small