Was thinking about #714 - access to id of current user on admin - in
the context of the auto_now_now and auto_add options on DateField. The
meta options auto_creator and auto_editor could be added. auto_creator
sets the value of a field to the current admin user on INSERT,
auto_editor sets that value on INSERT and UPDATE.

However, auto_now and auto_now_add work because they're part of the
DateField type and a user field is just a ForeignKey to User. Extending
ForeignKey in this way would be wrong. Would the best way to add this
feature be to create a new Field type, called something like
UserForeignKey, which can then accept the new options? Would this be a
good place to put anything else?

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