[Mageia-sysadm] updating sysadmin privileges in forum config

Wed Mar 21 20:39:01 CET 2012

On 21/03/2012 17:18, Romain d'Alverny wrote:
+> On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 14:57, Romain d'Alverny<rdalverny at gmail.com>  wrote:
+>> [...]
+> Steps taken so far (removing one level of indirection):
+>   * Sysadmins group:
+>     - removed;
+>   * Administrators group:
+>     - added sysadmin members who have not bee inactive for too long; I
+> still didn't look up full sysadmins list for that, but this can now be
+> managed by them directly;
+>     - added boklm as leader;
+>     - removed ash who has not been active in the forum and the project
+> for several months;
+>     - don't know what to do with forumadmin user (neither what it's for);
+It's the first user created at install: it was used to create the other 
+admins with forum-founder bit set up (included yours)
+
+This account should not be used except for crash recovery or things like 
+that (login impossible until ldap connexion is disengaged or an matching 
+user is created in LDAP directory)
+
+>   * Moderators group:
+>     - demoted ash from leadership for the same reason.
+>
+> (as a reminder, this is not going to change at all how forum
+> moderators already operate).
+>
+> So now:
+>   - sysadmin members can organize to manage, update and answer forum
+> admin&  moderators, from code to deployment to online config;
+>   - it's up to a volunteer to get the forum admin role and coordinate
+> with moderators and sysadmins; s/he will have to be promoted in
+> Administrators and Moderators groups;
+>   - all groups, you decide then how you operate for the best.
+>
+> r.
+
+There are 2 things that were not adressed :
+
+  * Separation of forum administration on several "roles" which... oh
+    well forget about it... saying it once more will only demoralize
+    me... so let's do as if i did say nothing :-/
+  * Lack of PHP/PHPBB coding skills... Once that solved i'd fear to see
+    mongers and python experts reviewing PHPBB hacks... by the way
+    testing them in a testbed without a copy of the real database...
+    pushing them blindly with git and asking if a sysadmin could find 2
+    minutes to push them on the actives forums... waiting for the
+    mail/whatever notification to click on the interfaces (of each... a
+    chance we have only 2 of them) and run the update process (praying
+    god that everything will go as expected because the rollback given
+    this way of doing things is just something that you don't want to
+    get into)
+
+That's what i already pointed... half an admin... bound and 
+distrusted... as useful as the ties allow to be (iow not very much).
+
+(sigh)
+
+-- 
+Life is magic... or at least it would be if...
+
+