Re: Best practices for 1.5 configurable user model and profiles

On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 12:46 PM, Doug <dmeehan@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks Shawn. So what is your take? Only authentication data in User?
> Separate Profile model and app?

I think Russell hit the main points well. Make User only what it needs
to be for identification/authentication, and put other stuff
elsewhere, unless it becomes a performance issue, in which case
selectively denormalize.

I don't know what weight my opinion carries, but I've been using
Django full-time for about four years, and I think if I made a custom
user model, it would just have e-mail (to be used for authentication),
password (mangled, of course), and the is_active flag. Anything else
is probably unnecessary for my uses, although maybe I could do with a
"name" field for a free-form name to display in logs or a greeting to
the user.

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