On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Martin Pool <[email protected]> wrote: > 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?
I think that this is a good idea, that our permissions system needs radical rethinking and that we shouldn't block the former on the latter. jml _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
