[Mageia-sysadm] updating sysadmin privileges in forum config

[Maât]

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)

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