Remove ordering for contrib.auth User model

[Leah Culver]

In contrib.auth the User model has:

ordering = ('username',)

While it is very nice for small applications to have pretty ordered output, it's a bit hard on applications with many users (such as pownce.com). One concern is there might be applications that depend on this ordering in the User model and it would be nice not to break this functionality. However, it might be worth doing to make Django "scale"... ugh.

[Erik Karulf]

I'm a strong +1 on this as well. I'll submit the small 2 line patch, though it defiantly needs a design decision.

[Erik Karulf]

Removed ordering by default from User and Group

[Jacob]

Accepted, with the comments I told ekarulf IRL.

[Erik Karulf]

Same as above with added ordering in admin

[Erik Karulf]

I bumped into this again when migrating a large table of users into Django.

The patch seems fairly benign, ready for checkin?

[Malcolm Tredinnick]

(In [7806]) Fixed #6089 -- Removed default ordering on the User class.
Admin users are still ordered, since we add it in specially for Admin. Slightly
backwards incompatible.

Patch from Erik Karulf.

[spacetaxi]

I have a model with a many-to-many relation to the contrib.auth User model. Now when I open the admin form (newforms-admin) to edit my model, the user-selection widget contains unsorted users... This is nearly unusable. Prior to [7806] the selection widget was sorted. I need this widget to show sorted users, but what's the right way to get them sorted again? (Maybe this is dumb question, but currently I don't see an elegant solution...)

[Benjamin Wohlwend]

Just in case someone else has the same problem as I (and spacetaxi, as it seems) had and stumbles over this ticket: this is how I restored order (ahem) of ForeignKeys to the User model in the Admin

    class MyModelForm(forms.ModelForm):
        def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
            super(MyModelForm, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
            self.fields['user'].choices = [('', 10*'-')] + list(User.objects.all().values_list('id', 'username').order_by('username'))

        class Meta:
            model = MyModel

    class MyModelAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
        form = MyModelForm

[dannyman]

Hello,

I've spent a few hours trying unsuccessfully to sort the usernames in my admin interface, posting a query on Stack Overflow which led me here:

​http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1474135/django-admin-ordering-of-foreignkey-and-manytomanyfield-relations-referencing-us

While I think its great that piquadrat has a solution, (thanks!) can I just say "eek" and suggest that there ought to be some sane way to specify how to sort users in the admin inteface? Thanks!