Hi Malcolm, It seen everyone here agree 30 characters is not enough for last names and this should be changed. I also think 255 characters would cause less trouble in a sense, cause we wouldn't have to deal with this problem again until we decide to go full TextField. which is actually the best decision (IMHO).
Regarding breaking the UI, I prefer a website with a broken UI than a website I cannot login (Ex. with my github account) because of my name. Lesser of two evils. So how we could reach a consensus between 60 and 255? 60 will cover my last name, but not erik's ... I wish we could solve this for everyone and not only for me ... :/ Kind Regards. On Friday, July 29, 2016 at 1:15:43 PM UTC+2, Raony Guimaraes Corrêa Do Carmo Lisboa Cardenas wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > For a long time I was having problems to login to djangopackages.com > using my github account (pydanny/djangopackages#338 > <https://github.com/pydanny/djangopackages/issues/338>). After > investigating I discovered the problem was because my surname is longer > than 30 characters. I don't know why both first_name and last_name fields > have the same size limit of 30 characters in Django. That doesn't sound > very reasonable. > > I'm sure there are other people on the same situation and this already > happened with me trying to login in other django websites. > > > [image: selection_086] > <https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/124987/17208678/f7a40f40-54b9-11e6-8978-7240782707c7.png> > > > Tim Graham suggested I should first ask on this maillist ( > https://github.com/django/django/pull/6988#issuecomment-235945422) to see > if there is consensus to make the change. > > I would like to ask your opinion about an increase from 30 to 60 > characters on last_name field so that my login and others won't break again > in the future. I can create a Trac ticket if the response is positive. > > Kind Regards, > > -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/django-developers. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/c2c98e8c-a660-4699-a6ad-33e1014d9577%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
