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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