Last modified: 2012-10-12 08:35:43 UTC
Permissions are now a mess: documentation is all about "editors, monitors, oversighters", while code is more specific like "aftv5-hide-feedback, aftv5-delete-feedback, aftv5-feature-feedback, ..." Right now, the code largely uses "aftv5-feature-feedback" to identify "an editor" - even if the functionality has nothing to do with "featuring", which leads to confusing code (there have been multiple permissions issues before) Either stop using "aftv5-feature-feedback" as a generic identifier for "editor" usecases (and instead start using multiple permissions like e.g. "aftv5-see-hidden-feedback" but make sure they're all assigned to the correct groups of people), or make the "editor" identifier ("aftv5-feature-feedback") less confusing.
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39451 has gotten this kick-started already. Fabrice: could you please review http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Article_feedback/Version_5/Feature_Requirements#Access_and_permissions - we've constantly been talking in terms like editors/monitors/oversighters, missing some of the listed intermediary groups (like administrators) I'll assume the list to still be accurate and update/fix all permissions according to the list (and refactor the rest as described in previous comment) To shed some clarity on the user groups (there's recently been some confusion about "readers"), this is how I'll be naming the groups internally. We can either talk about "confirmed users" or "editors", doesn't matter to me, just want to make sure we agree on the terminology. Once agreed upon, I'll also update http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Article_feedback/Version_5/Feature_Requirements#Access_and_permissions to reflect these internal names. // every member (apart from blocked users) = reader // registered members = member // (auto-)confirmed users = editor // rollbacker/reviewer = monitor // administrator (= sysop) = administrator // oversight = oversighter
*** Bug 39282 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
This seems like a very reasonable way to improve permissions for Article Feedback. Thanks for this excellent recommendation!
Pushed to Gerrit (https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/25492/) & prototype
