Grupa-like field on the User model

[aismail]

CC @andreip

[andreip]

@aismail how will we get the grupa-like field if it's not on ldap, it would be painful to add the manually. Do we really need this field, wouldn't the year of study be enough?

[aismail]

It's not enough, because the TA's must know which students belong to them
(so that they can get an easy view of which homeworks to correct). I'll
think about it.

[valenting]

Worst case scenario: students have to enter the info in their profile themselves.
It's clearly important to have this field, regardless of the way it will be used.
Note: some universities may not divide students in the same way. However, it would allow them to organize in teams, if that's required.
It would also be nice to be able to set a per-assignment-group or per-course-group , but that's not a required feature for now.

[bogdanciobanu]

I think that this is the solution for the problem: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/auth/customizing/#extending-the-existing-user-model.

What would be a good name for this new field? Grupa?

CC: @aismail

[bogdanciobanu]

Or should I do create a new User model which would replace Django's one like here https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/auth/customizing/#a-full-example ?

I think that the first one would be more appropriate, but it seems that the second one is the one suggested. What do you think @aismail ?