Hi Travis, This seems like a useful suggestion. You could open a ticket on it.
Right now, I don't want to make a change of this sort to the trunk/0.9. It could certainly land in the future, particularly with a patch :) So, you could always start by creating your own provider based on Jeff's and then submit a patch for us to incorporate later on. Thanks for the suggestion! Kevin On 2/15/06, Travis Bradshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've just recently moved from 0.8.9 to svn trunk after finding the > Identity package is just so excellently done. (Jeff Watkins, you do > great work.) > > I had already written an internal identity management package, but > have just dumped it when I found that Jeff had already done one > better. We were also of very similar mind, because almost all of the > mechanics are the same. > > However, one feature that I think would be great for the Identity > module are hierarchical permissions. The first project that really > got me hooked on them for a permission scheme is Gallery, and they > boil down to simply allowing permissions to be formed into a > multi-branch tree where each parent is a superset of the leaves. > > I think that it makes for a very intuitive permission system, due to > things like this being possible: > > Groups: (administrators, moderators, guests) > > Permissions: (groups assigned that permission in parens) > > * Admin Foo (administrators) > * Add Foo (moderators) > * Del Foo > * Edit Foo (moderators) > * View Foo (guests) > > This is a very common occurrence in permission desires, where the > effective permissions are: > > administrators (admin, add, del, edit, view) > moderators (add, edit, view) > guests (view) > > It makes administration much easier than having to add each and every > permission to each and every group. I would be happy to assist with > writing the necessary patch(es), but I wanted to present the idea to > the group (especially Jeff) to see if this is a desired > feature/direction for the Identity package, or if I should just focus > on overwriting the permission model in my own project. > > Thanks for your time, > > Travis Bradshaw > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- Kevin Dangoor Author of the Zesty News RSS newsreader email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] company: http://www.BlazingThings.com blog: http://www.BlueSkyOnMars.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TurboGears" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
