On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 2:17 PM, Senaka Fernando <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all, > > This is WRT, #1725 on Redmine. > > +++++++++++++++++++++ > The idea is to create a special role that gives READ, WRITE, DELETE and > AUTHORIZE access to a particular asset making it possible for a particular > user or set of users take ownership of it. This thought came up during a > WSO2 Store Milestone Planning Meeting, and mimics the functionality of > Google Docs. > +++++++++++++++++++++ > I think first you need to think whether this is a problem we should try to solve with a role based model. When we say role it represent a set of permissions which are belongs to a meaning full actor in a system. Here we are going to define roles per resource. But this seems to be a problem to solve with direct user permission assignment. thanks, Amila. > > Before going ahead with this, we have a few things to get clarified. > > 1. How would this role be named? This shouldn't be the name of the Asset > itself, because there can be multiple assets by the same name. It even cant > be name + namespace (or similar prefix/postfix), because there can be > assets that differ by version. So, what's the best way to name it? > > 2. How should we be displaying this role in the management console? Should > it show up just like any other role, or is there some special treatment in > the Registry Browser? Since the role and the asset are 1-to-1, we shouldn't > be displaying such roles against other assets, which makes it require some > special treatment. > > 3. Is it just one such role or more? For instance, G-Docs has three types > of privileges when it comes to sharing (i.e. View, Edit, Owner). > > Appreciate some quick responses on these in order to make it possible for > us to ship this with G-Reg 4.6.0, making it available for WSO2 Store etc. > > Thanks, > Senaka. > > -- > * <http://us13.wso2con.com/> > * > * > * > *Senaka Fernando* > Senior Technical Lead; WSO2 Inc.; http://wso2.com* > Member; Apache Software Foundation; http://apache.org > > E-mail: senaka AT wso2.com > **P: +1 408 754 7388; ext: 51736*; *M: +94 77 322 1818 > Linked-In: http://linkedin.com/in/senakafernando > > *Lean . Enterprise . Middleware > > _______________________________________________ > Architecture mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.wso2.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/architecture > > -- *Amila Suriarachchi* Software Architect WSO2 Inc. ; http://wso2.com lean . enterprise . middleware phone : +94 71 3082805
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