For those interested in such matters, I wanted to pass along some recent
modifications to the user community role definitions for the opensolaris.org ->
xwiki migration. There has been an ongoing debate in the website and ogb
discussions about the need to separate the community site roles and privileges
from the community electorate roles. Bonnie Corwin, from the website group,
gave the following update to address the concerns that have been raised. FYI:
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Hi,
There have been multiple discussions recently regarding the current
implementation of Auth and how it relates to access control for applications
such as XWiki. Members of the Website Development team attended the OGB
meeting on Aug 20 to understand in detail the OGB's concerns about the current
implementation. These center around the use in Auth of the
Constitutionally-defined role names of Contributor and Core Contributor in the
Community Group collective.
To address the OGB's concerns, the following changes will be implemented before
the Phase 2 transition to XWiki:
1. Rename the existing Community Group roles as follows (they will be
the same as those in the User Group collective):
Core Contributor -> Leader
Contributor -> Affiliate
Participant -> Participant (unchanged)
2. Update Electorate data as follows:
a. Rename 'Member' in Electorates to 'Core Contributor'.
b. Add a new role called 'Contributor' to the Electorates. Unlike
Core Contributor, this role will not have an end date.
c. Populate Electorate/Contributor role with the list of existing
Community Group/Contributors.
These changes involve significant rework for the current site transition, and
we are investigating the impact on the published schedule.
Thanks.
Bonnie
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