id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc,stage,has_patch,needs_docs,needs_tests,needs_better_patch,easy,ui_ux 19079,make USERNAME_FIELD a required attribute of user objects,Preston Holmes,nobody,"currently it is documented as required, but is not present in any base class instead a number of places we fall back to looking for a 'username' attribute per: https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/19077#comment:6 it would clean things up a bit to simply require this as a defined attribute, and represent it appropriately on the base classes",Cleanup/optimization,closed,contrib.auth,dev,Release blocker,fixed,,,Accepted,0,0,0,0,0,0