Russell Keith-Magee, 04 Feb 2015 08:26: > Jacob specifically said a good patch for this feature would be considered > when he wontfixed #6362.
for me, leaving a ticket open is a better signal for inviting discussion and patches. when i see a wontfix closed ticket in other projects it usually means "end of story, dont bother" and/or "this is not an issue that needs fixing". but that's just me :) > because throwing away data that the user actually entered should be an > opt-in, not opt-out behavior. data: yes, leading/trailing whitespace: no. this is the critical point where we disagree. when it comes to that whitespace, it should be opt-out. the web also seems to disagree with you. try any of the forms starting at google search, usernames in login forms, contact forms, they all throw away leading/trailing whitespace -- and it's one less problem their helpdesks must deal with. leading/trailing whitespace is a usability issue, and a mistake people make who do not realise how "unforgiving" computers are when presented with 'username ' != 'username'. for them whitespace is "air". but i think the point is made and clear. of course it's possible to deal with this in django, it's just more hassle than it could be and right now i feel punished. i think many django projects simply ignore the issue and delegate the blame to the user. i am thinking of raising a ticket about the admin's loginform not stripping its username, esp when adding a user is actually protected against whitespace. would that make sense? it is trivial to fix :) -f -- underneath all these clothes i am completely naked! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers (Contributions to Django itself)" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/20150204104002.GA18576%40obiit.org. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
