Hi, I raised the role issue in response to a question regarding SCM'ing templates a week or so back...
http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/152887 Anyway, to repost a few relevant points. My first thought was to keep the the 3-tier (renaming Developer for Designer) - but juggling some of the privileges about. A couple of days later, nearing delivery of a site, I actually countered it with a need for 4-tiers (and still juggling privileges about). Jonathan McCoy wrote: > ... > In keeping designs and code DRY, we find ourselves using snippets to > contain more than user-editable content, and use them heavily for > fragments of design logic. As such, we want to keep day-to-day users far > away from anything that can cause damage to the site. > > Standard (Pages) -> Designer (+ Snippets) -> Administrator (+ Layouts, Users, > etc) Jonathan McCoy later wrote: > I've monkey-patched a frozen version of Radiant (0.6.7) with some of the > functionality I lusted for above. No testing or a "designer" flag (just > put snippets on the Admin/Dev level). I'd be more inclined to assemble > patches and tests (to the spec above) if anybody else was interested in > it being pushed into the trunk? > > Would be nice to review the user levels available - or if we're all > feeling code-happy, granular access control. I can foresee the need for > the following roles at least: > > 1. Content Monkey (pages + preferences) > 2. Designer (+ layouts + snippets) > 3. Developer (+ extensions) > 4. Administrator (+ user management) > > ... > I'd keep the developer flag for the > benefit of extensions/plugins that need technical setup. Another > question, is whether flags are more desirable than a user-level number > (ie 1 to 4) or even a class-name, which can be mapped out to a role > name. A popup list with userlevels can be used instead. It removes the > uncertainty of having admin flagged, but developer unflagged -> what > rights does the user have?! Jon. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. _______________________________________________ Radiant mailing list Post: Radiant@radiantcms.org Search: http://radiantcms.org/mailing-list/search/ Site: http://lists.radiantcms.org/mailman/listinfo/radiant
