[Mageia-webteam] Questions about the forum - Part II

Thu Mar 31 13:05:31 CEST 2011

Le mercredi 30 mars 2011 à 18:08 +0200, Maât a écrit :
+> Le 30/03/2011 17:12, Raphaël Jadot a écrit :
+> > 2011/3/30 Wolfgang Bornath <molch.b at googlemail.com>:
+> >> I agree to the necessity of good communication between
+> >> moderators/admins. I also suggested to have a hidden moderator/admin
+> >> forum where all moderators and admins can share their experiences,
+> >> discuss certain issues, and even exchange names of users who popped up
+> >> in a positive or negative way.
+> >
+> > In fact it already exist (moderation under "mageia forums"), but if
+> > you ask for it, then you certainly don't see it.
+> >
+> :)
+> 
+> > Mmm looking for it, maybe permissions are not correctly applied to this forum
+> >
+> Nope fort this part ACL are correctly defined
+> 
+> This forum is only designed to be used by "global moderators" the we usually call "moderators"
+> 
+> (Other groups may have partial moderation rights enabled so that everybody's life is easier... 
+> for example translators on the forum dedicated to packaging and translating can edit posts or 
+> topic so that they have the right to mark a topic as [resolved]" but this is not something 
+> that make them moderators)
+
+I think that first, we need to make clear about what we talk, because
+the concept of group exist already outside of phpbb, and yet, we use the
+same word for both.
+
+( like founders in phpbb, that already exist outside and will confuse
+users ). So for the sake of proper communication, please be precise. 
+
+The example of wobo and the translators group is exactly that. 
+
+
+I would propose to have a organisation that's as simple as possible.
+
+- a group moderators for the whole forums ( ie all forums ), derived
+from some ldap group like forum-developers, used for general
+administration or stuff like that
+- moderators per forum instance ( in our case for english forum ),
+sorted in a phpbb group.
+- users ( ie everything else )
+
+If you want to have forums were people have some rights, then I would
+also prefer for the sake of simplicity of right managements to tie that
+with ldap groups. 
+
+Ie, that when someone is promoted to become i18n commiters ( see i18n
+team organisation ), he then also receive the right on forum in the same
+way that this person receive right to commit to svn and to transifex.
+
+This way, we would not have the mess of tracking everything in several
+permissions databases, which in turn mean we will have a clearer
+documentation and view of the various capabilities of our users. 
+
+And this also would help if we decide to vote, as epoll have ldap
+integration ( that is quite painful to use at the moment as we need to
+give all information again each time ). And this also make sure that
+there is no confusion about who decide for what. Ie, the i18n team is
+consistently managed.
+
+
+-- 
+Michael Scherer
+
+