[GSoc 2012]: Want to work on keeping django code uptodate with the best practices

2012-03-09 Thread Karthik Abinav
Hi, I was looking through the google summer of code 2012 wiki page and found the "Best practices updates" problem interesting and would like to work towards it. It would be really nice, if someone could explain in more detail as to what exactly is expected there. I am moderately comfortable with

Just a crazy idea..

2012-03-09 Thread h3
First a little context.. I've been on the django-dev mailing list for quite a while .. since about 1.0. I'm usually relatively quiet unless I think I have a good insight about an issue. It's been a great source of learning, but also a good way to notice recurring patterns. On the other hand, I've

LiveServerTestCase

2012-03-09 Thread Justin Holmes
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Re: authentication by email

2012-03-09 Thread Luciano Pacheco
2012/3/10 Łukasz Rekucki > On 9 March 2012 21:10, Tom Evans wrote: > > 2012/3/9 Łukasz Rekucki : > >> On 9 March 2012 17:46, Tom Evans wrote: > [...] > My point is that this kind of things change and we should have tools > to deal with that. We already have the exact same problem with IPv6 >

Re: authentication by email

2012-03-09 Thread Łukasz Rekucki
On 9 March 2012 21:10, Tom Evans wrote: > 2012/3/9 Łukasz Rekucki : >> On 9 March 2012 17:46, Tom Evans wrote: >>> >>> Lets look at one isolated aspect. The User email field in d.c.auth is >>> too short. Emails can be up to 248 characters long, and d.c.auth only >>> allows 75. >> >> The latest RF

Re: authentication by email

2012-03-09 Thread Tom Evans
2012/3/9 Łukasz Rekucki : > On 9 March 2012 17:46, Tom Evans wrote: >> >> Lets look at one isolated aspect. The User email field in d.c.auth is >> too short. Emails can be up to 248 characters long, and d.c.auth only >> allows 75. > > The latest RFC[1] actually specifies this as 256 *octets* with

Re: authentication by email

2012-03-09 Thread Łukasz Rekucki
On 9 March 2012 17:46, Tom Evans wrote: > > Lets look at one isolated aspect. The User email field in d.c.auth is > too short. Emails can be up to 248 characters long, and d.c.auth only > allows 75. The latest RFC[1] actually specifies this as 256 *octets* with max of 64 octets for the local part

Re: authentication by email

2012-03-09 Thread Joe & Anne Tennies
While, I generally agree with the current approach, especially this close to release. I'm going to play devil's advocate for a bit. Schema migrations have been talked about for quite a while. There are at least 3 external implementations I know of: South, nashvegas, and django-evolution. I'm unsur

Re: authentication by email

2012-03-09 Thread Tom Evans
On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 3:52 PM, Luke Plant wrote: > On 09/03/12 14:49, Tom Evans wrote: > >>> Yes, since no one needs it. Okay no one isn't true, but no one (for true >>> this time) who needed it stepped up and said "I'll implement it and see that >>> it ends up in trunk" >>> >> >> I'm sorry, that

Re: authentication by email

2012-03-09 Thread Luke Plant
On 09/03/12 14:49, Tom Evans wrote: >> Yes, since no one needs it. Okay no one isn't true, but no one (for true >> this time) who needed it stepped up and said "I'll implement it and see that >> it ends up in trunk" >> > > I'm sorry, that completely mis-characterises the situation. Lots of > peop

Re: authentication by email

2012-03-09 Thread Tom Evans
On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 3:36 PM, Luke Plant wrote: > What you are really saying is this: being pragmatic means that we > prioritise *your* immediate need above the need to keep the code and the > docs maintainable, and above the need to maintain compatibility with > existing installations. > > Ther

Re: authentication by email

2012-03-09 Thread Luke Plant
On 09/03/12 09:37, Clay McClure wrote: > Who's talking about a migration? I'm asking for something that will work > for *new* installations; existing installations can continue > authenticating against usernames for all I care :) > > Moreover, I'm thoroughly frustrated by the fact that developer

Language Translation

2012-03-09 Thread Vishnu vg
Hi Friends, I have a cms based existing django site. I want to translate it to german or other language, Please suggest which is the best method? -- Regards Vishnu V.G Software Programmer Mobile : 8714321452(Docomo) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: authentication by email

2012-03-09 Thread Tom Evans
On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 8:13 AM, Florian Apolloner wrote: >> Should these things really take five years? What happened to pragmatic? > > > Yes, since no one needs it. Okay no one isn't true, but no one (for true > this time) who needed it stepped up and said "I'll implement it and see that > it end

[Minor Issue]: contrib/auth still uses send_mail as compared to EmailMessage

2012-03-09 Thread Karthik Abinav
Hi, The contrib/auth still uses send_mail for sending an email .But since, send_mail is currently frozen, It is better to invoke EmailMessage directly from contrib/auth instead of going through send_mail and that in turn invoking EmailMessage. I have submitted a ticket along with a patch for th

Re: authentication by email

2012-03-09 Thread Clay McClure
On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 3:23 AM, Danny Adair wrote: > It's the "required" of username that's the problem if you don't want a > username at all when authenticating against email. > It would have to be not required and check required fields in clean() > where the backend could be asked what's really

Re: authentication by email

2012-03-09 Thread Tino de Bruijn
My django-email-login app ( https://bitbucket.org/tino/django-email-login/overview) does this by putting a hash of the email adress in the username field. It isn't as nice as it could be, but it works. I would really like to see this solved another way, but it is a hard problem with the current re

Re: The model class should have default ``__cmp__`` method.

2012-03-09 Thread Łukasz Rekucki
On 9 March 2012 06:15, Λlisue wrote: > I have the following codes for testing model and it's works correctly in > Django 1.3 + Python 2.7 without unittest2:: > > # in method of TestCase subclass --- > user1 = User.objects.create_user(username='user1', > email='us...

Re: authentication by email

2012-03-09 Thread Danny Adair
On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 21:13, Florian Apolloner wrote: >[...] > Yes, since no one needs it. Okay no one isn't true, but no one (for true > this time) who needed it stepped up and said "I'll implement it and see that > it ends up in trunk" It's the "required" of username that's the problem if you

Re: authentication by email

2012-03-09 Thread Florian Apolloner
Hi, On Friday, March 9, 2012 6:54:16 AM UTC+1, Clay McClure wrote: > > if settings.AUTH_EMAIL_AUTHENTICATION: > Hell, not another ugly setting like this. Should these things really take five years? What happened to pragmatic? > Yes, since no one needs it. Okay no one isn't true, but no one (for

Re: authentication by email

2012-03-09 Thread Danny Adair
On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 20:01, Donald Stufft wrote: > The major issue is that there is no way to do schema migrations in core > (currently). So there's no way to handle increasing the length of the > username field. I don't understand what the "username" field length has to do with it. And I thin