To expand a little bit on this: On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 12:33 PM, Tom Morris <tfmor...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I suspect it has to do with deleting /dev since that was the home for the > permissions key that allowed us to edit: > > http://openlibrary.org/dev.json?v=8 > http://openlibrary.org/permission/librarians.json > http://openlibrary.org/usergroup/librarians.json > My guess is that the permission checking code starts at the current page and works its way up the tree until it finds a page that has permission settings that apply. In this case, if you look at the old version of /dev (ie http://openlibrary.org/dev.json?v=8), you can see that it includes: { - key: "/permission/librarians" }, and /permissions/librarians.json includes, in part: { - key: "/permission/librarians", - description: { - value: "Permission object to allow editing by librarians and admins." }, - readers: [ - { - key: "/usergroup/everyone" } ], - m: "edit", - writers: [ - { - key: "/usergroup/admin" }, - { - key: "/usergroup/librarians" } ], } and finally /usergroup/librarians includes the following members: - members: [ - { - key: "/people/anand" }, - { - key: "/people/kcoyle" }, - { - key: "/people/bencompanjen" }, - { - key: "/people/tfmorris" } ], So, when the page at /dev was deleted, taking the permission node with it, the folks in /usergroup/librarians lost their write access. I believe the split between /developers and /dev was intentional, reserving /developers for IA staff only, but I'm not sure what the rationale was or if it's still valid. One solution would be to just restore the contents of /dev. It doesn't actually have to be linked to from anywhere as long as its around to hold the permissions. https://openlibrary.org/dev?m=revert&v=8 And that exhausts my knowledge on the subject... Tom
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