As Whimsy grows in userbase, we need to ensure we're providing enough
information for a wide variety of users what the data various URLs
present is.  In particular, I've already seen cases where people
misunderstood which pages or data were publicly available vs. private
(to some degree or other).

Besides some sort of .small glyphicon-lock image, perhaps with a listing
of the auth realm for various pages or data, are there any other simple
ways to signify that 1) an entire page is only available to a certain
class of people, or 2) that some data or operations on a page are
private, while some other data might be public?

This is especially important between member-private data and committer
or officer-private data, I think.  Members have such broad inspection
rights to all organizational data, but it's not always clear that some
of this data should *not* be visible (or copied/shared) with committers.

I'm wondering if some navbar addition of lock symbols by
member/officer+/committer realms is appropriate, or if the indicator
should be explanatory text within various pages.

Note that this will be especially important for the roster/orgchart
tool, since some of that data is displayed in the public-facing
foundation/orgchart tool.


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- Shane
  https://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/resources

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