There have been a few things in the last day where people said (in bugs or mail) "I don't have permission to do X in Launchpad and I can't work out how to get it."
In practice I guess they ask a Launchpad expert, so it's perhaps not the most urgent problem. However I was wondering if we could do something systematic that would fix this for many cases. Launchpad has a systematic definition of security permissions. As a thought experiment, suppose when a person doesn't have permission to use a particular control or page, we showed the repr of the security interface that controls it, rather than just hiding it. Then if that said for instance "EditTeamByTeamOwnerOrTeamAdminsOrAdmins" (omg what a mouthful) it would at least give a clue, and that could eventually evolve to show you who the team owner and admins and system admins are, and how you might change this. Perhaps this could visually just be a little lock with the tooltip showing the explanation. Perhaps some discretion is needed to do this only on particularly relevant controls, not everything. What do you think? -- Martin <http://launchpad.net/~mbp/> _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
