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Develop higher level guidance on when to use model subclasses
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Description
ADR on:
- when to use multi-table inheritance
- when to use 1:1 relations
- when to use class registries to do dispatch
- if we want to adopt django-polymorphic
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Review the four architectural questions listed in the issue, including multi-table inheritance, 1:1 relations, class registries, and django-polymorphic. Compare these approaches and produce an ADR that gives higher-level guidance on when to use model subclasses and which approach to choose in each case.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- django, python
- Domain
- backend, documentation
- Issue type
- Documentation
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100