Possible bug in django.contrib.auth.forms.UserChangeForm's password field's help_text setup

2017-12-21 Thread Shaheed Haque
Hi, In Django 2.0, the help_text for the password field of django.contrib.auth.forms.UserChangeForm looks like this: help_text=_( "Raw passwords are not stored, so there is no way to see this " "user's password, but you can change the password using " "this fo

Forms in django.contrib.auth have "username" as a hardcoded field value (patch included)

2017-12-21 Thread Shaheed Haque
Hi, There is a rather old defect https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/19394 relating to the topic in hand, i.e. the use of the django.contrib.auth forms as-is when the default User model has been overridden such that the username is not used. It was closed by adding a documentation update afte

Re: Introduction : Somesh Chaturvedi

2017-12-21 Thread Somesh Chaturvedi
Sounds good. I'll join the group right away and look at all other possible ways of contribution you have mentioned. Thanks, Adam. On Thursday, December 21, 2017 at 6:13:07 PM UTC+5:30, Somesh Chaturvedi wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > I have been using Django in my professional as well as personal p

Re: Introduction : Somesh Chaturvedi

2017-12-21 Thread Adam Johnson
Welcome Somesh, There's actually a mailing list dedicated to first time contributors, where you might get a bit more attention: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/ django-core-mentorship I'd suggest having a particular goal in mind where you'd like to contribute - what areas of Django do you

Introduction : Somesh Chaturvedi

2017-12-21 Thread Somesh Chaturvedi
Hi everyone, I have been using Django in my professional as well as personal projects for the past 3 years now. I'd like to start contributing for Django now. I have gone through the following documentation along with all its sub-docs. https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/internals/contributi