On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 8:14 PM, Russell Keith-Magee <
russ...@keith-magee.com> wrote:

>
> On 17/03/2012, at 12:53 AM, Jacob Kaplan-Moss wrote:
>
> > I think we need to come together and agree on an approach before we move
> forward, so I'd like to see some concrete proposals for each of these
> approaches. Since all options have merits and since I think it's unlikely
> we'll find consensus I'm prepared to make a BDFL ruling here. So if you
> feel strongly about one approach or another, please write a concrete
> proposal and post it here or on the wiki. I'll look these over -- and also
> review Clay's branch -- and (again, baring consensus) make a ruling next
> week.
>
> To help this along, I've just summarized the state of this discussion on
> the wiki.
>
> https://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/ContribAuthImprovements
>
> I've tried to keep my comments as objective as possible; if anyone feels
> I've misrepresented something, or missed an important point, feel free to
> weigh in with modifications. However, *please*:
>
>  * Keep it brief.
>  * Keep it on topic.
>  * Keep it objective.
>
> I'll be doing some weeding and pruning to make sure the document remains a
> useful historical summary of our design discussion (just like the similar
> documents we have for class-based views and contrib.messages). This means
> that any length, off-topic, or non-objective comments will be cut -- or at
> least heavily edited.
>
> Yours,
> Russ Magee %-)


I hope you don't mind, I added solution 2a. It's basically solution 2 minus
the monkey-patching and resultant circular dependency issues, and
correspondingly requires apps to opt-in to supporting pluggable Users. It
documents the reasoning behind the changes in
https://github.com/ogier/django/tree/auth-mixins

-Alex Ogier

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