Re: Customizable User model as GSoC project

2009-03-28 Thread David Danier
Hi Ted, perhaps take a look at ticket #3011 (http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/3011). Greetings, David Danier --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, sen

Re: Customizable User model as GSoC project

2009-03-27 Thread Richard Silver
This is one of the short-comings with the auth system. We needed to use an email address as username as well. Ugly process. On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 5:38 AM, zellyn wrote: > > On Mar 26, 7:54 pm, Edward Kaplan wrote: > > The situation in which the feature would have been useful to me was > > tha

Re: Customizable User model as GSoC project

2009-03-27 Thread zellyn
On Mar 26, 7:54 pm, Edward Kaplan wrote: > The situation in which the feature would have been useful to me was > that I needed to synchronize the User model in my project with Google > Apps.  Rewriting the default auth views seemed like overkill, as I > only wanted to override the set_password an

Re: Customizable User model as GSoC project

2009-03-26 Thread Russell Keith-Magee
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 8:54 AM, Edward Kaplan wrote: > > Hello, I am a student interested in implementing an extendable/ > replaceable User model in auth_user as a Summer of Code project. ... > I would like to know if this would be considered for a SoC project. A very tentative, in principle, m

Customizable User model as GSoC project

2009-03-26 Thread Edward Kaplan
Hello, I am a student interested in implementing an extendable/ replaceable User model in auth_user as a Summer of Code project. I am personally interested in this feature because it would have allowed a cleaner design in a Django project I worked on, but I also believe from reading discussions o