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+ <B>Wolfgang Bornath</B>
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+ TITLE="[Mageia-sysadm] [forums-discuss] Re: updating sysadmin privileges in forum config">molch.b at googlemail.com
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+ <I>Wed Mar 21 23:34:24 CET 2012</I>
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+<PRE>2012/3/21 Florian Hubold &lt;<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-sysadm">doktor5000 at arcor.de</A>&gt;:
+&gt;<i> Am 21.03.2012 20:39, schrieb Ma&#226;t:
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> On 21/03/2012 17:18, Romain d'Alverny wrote:
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 14:57, Romain d'Alverny&lt;<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-sysadm">rdalverny at gmail.com</A>&gt; &#160;wrote:
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> [...]
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> Steps taken so far (removing one level of indirection):
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> &#160; * Sysadmins group:
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> &#160; &#160; - removed;
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> &#160; * Administrators group:
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> &#160; &#160; - added sysadmin members who have not bee inactive for too long; I
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> still didn't look up full sysadmins list for that, but this can now be
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> managed by them directly;
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> &#160; &#160; - added boklm as leader;
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> &#160; &#160; - removed ash who has not been active in the forum and the project
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> for several months;
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> &#160; &#160; - don't know what to do with forumadmin user (neither what it's for);
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> It's the first user created at install: it was used to create the other
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> admins with forum-founder bit set up (included yours)
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> This account should not be used except for crash recovery or things like that
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> (login impossible until ldap connexion is disengaged or an matching user is
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> created in LDAP directory)
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> &#160; * Moderators group:
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> &#160; &#160; - demoted ash from leadership for the same reason.
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> (as a reminder, this is not going to change at all how forum
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> moderators already operate).
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> So now:
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> &#160; - sysadmin members can organize to manage, update and answer forum
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> admin&amp; &#160;moderators, from code to deployment to online config;
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> &#160; - it's up to a volunteer to get the forum admin role and coordinate
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> with moderators and sysadmins; s/he will have to be promoted in
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> Administrators and Moderators groups;
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> &#160; - all groups, you decide then how you operate for the best.
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> r.
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> There are 2 things that were not adressed :
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> &#160;* Separation of forum administration on several &quot;roles&quot; which... oh
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> &#160; &#160;well forget about it... saying it once more will only demoralize
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> &#160; &#160;me... so let's do as if i did say nothing :-/
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> &#160;* Lack of PHP/PHPBB coding skills... Once that solved i'd fear to see
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> &#160; &#160;mongers and python experts reviewing PHPBB hacks... by the way
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> &#160; &#160;testing them in a testbed without a copy of the real database...
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> &#160; &#160;pushing them blindly with git and asking if a sysadmin could find 2
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> &#160; &#160;minutes to push them on the actives forums... waiting for the
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> &#160; &#160;mail/whatever notification to click on the interfaces (of each... a
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> &#160; &#160;chance we have only 2 of them) and run the update process (praying
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> &#160; &#160;god that everything will go as expected because the rollback given
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> &#160; &#160;this way of doing things is just something that you don't want to
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> &#160; &#160;get into)
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> That's what i already pointed... half an admin... bound and distrusted... as
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> useful as the ties allow to be (iow not very much).
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> Sorry, just can't resist. You wrote in the other mail:
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> I already explained that separating these roles would bring no good... a pure
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> &quot;interface forum admin&quot; is an emasculated admin... nearly useless. Without
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> the ability of administrating the database at a low level adding indexes for
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> tuning, optimizing cache and that sort of things, getting data from apache
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> logs and various things to lock spammers without loading the system, without
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> all these tasks a forum admin is, in facts, not a forum admin but just a
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> figurine... beautiful in a glass case if in line with adornment ^^
+</I>&gt;<i> On the other hand, what's an admin who does nothing except
+</I>&gt;<i> being absent, not even doing forum software security updates?
+</I>&gt;<i> These arguments from you are just laughable to me, sorry, but i,
+</I>&gt;<i> for one, rather like to be true than to bite my lips.
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> For a real world example, we have a few of such pure &quot;emasculated&quot;
+</I>&gt;<i> interface forum admins as moderators at mandrivauser.de, and it's
+</I>&gt;<i> perfectly enough to care for the day-to-day forum business.
+</I>&gt;<i> But you seem to know much better, that's maybe also the reason
+</I>&gt;<i> why the int. Mageia forum is currently doing so well overall.
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> But i'll refrain to go on about this, to keep my blood pressure at sane levels.
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> (sigh)
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> Exactly.
+</I>
+Not much to add to this.
+ma&#226;t, you haven't understood it many months ago, I'm not surprised
+that you don't understand it now. Setting up a forum can be done by
+somebody like you or any other guy with the necessary technical
+knowledge. Being a real admin in a forum involves more than that
+technical knowledge.
+
+But i'll refrain to go on about this, to save me from dieing of boredom.
+
+--
+wobo
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