Lars Kaufmann and I have an eye on it. Lars commented a few times. He is the moderated groupchat person here. I think our main concern is that we do not see the point in a fixed role hierarchy. Currently our roles are attributes of the user and a user can have multiple attributes.
The features of attributes/roles do not collide, so there is no problem having multiple roles. Of course there are not yet many combinations which make sense in the real world, but 1. there are and 2. who knows. Example: user is admin and moderates and is invisible Example: a user is admin of another channel and visitor. So he has an icon which shows him as important (because he is admin somwhere else) but still can not say anything, because he is only a listener here. There might be more user features/behaviours which you want to control by attributes/roles than what the you can do with the fixed hierarchy of roles. Of course you can control things like visibiliy differently, but since the attributes/roles are there, why not use the mechanism for more than floor control. Other point is just about naming: The owner/admin terminology comes from ICQ. But I would rather like the owner to be the one who owns the room and creates admins. Admins the ones who control the room and create moderators. Moderators the ones who moderate the room. So basically one level more with moderators moderating ad administrators administering. The owner is usually not involved actively as a chatter. That is usually the company which owns the server and configures the room, so that the room knows the admin. -- Dr. Klaus H. Wolf bluehands GmbH & Co.mmunication KG http://www.bluehands.de/people/hw +49 (0721) 16108 75 -----Ursprungliche Nachricht----- Von: David Sutton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Gesendet: Dienstag, 8. Oktober 2002 01:49 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: [JDEV] groupchat <presence/> behaviour?? Hello there, As you may have seen, there is a lot of work currently underway on JEP-0045 ( http://www.jabber.org/jeps/jep-0045.html ) - why not look at that as i'm already seeing some overlap occuring, especially regarding user role. Regards, David _______________________________________________ jdev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev
