Hi Collin, I would like that, good idea!
Wim On Saturday, 7 February 2015 02:10:02 UTC+1, Collin Anderson wrote: > > Hi All, > > I was reminded by: > Allow shadowing of abstract fields > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/django-developers/6zUfnElOIks/8uwXji559EsJ > and https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/24288 (Custom User Models for > small tweaks). > > Could we reopen https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/20846 and increase > User.username max_length to 254? > > Personally, that's the only thing I've ever needed to change about my User > class. I just need it long enough to hold email addresses. I've seen many > other people wanting the same thing. > > In 1.8 we migrated the length of EmailField from 75 to 254, so it should > be almost™ as easy to change the username field. > > If needed, we could keep the 30-character limit on UserCreationForm and > UserChangeForm for backwards compatibility. The limit in the database is > the real killer :) Though, consistency is also nice. > > Thanks, > Collin > > -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. 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/dbef176f-d643-46fb-853a-5cbc070c9e8a%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
