[haiku-web] Re: Community Documentation Collaboration (Was: Add Comunity Project)

  • From: "Jorge G. Mare" <koki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-web@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 19:14:13 -0700

Matt Madia wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 1:20 AM, Urias McCullough <umccullough@xxxxxxxxx> 
> wrote:
>   
>> Tiered permissions aren't a terribly great idea, IMO, and tend to
>> "classify" people into different levels of system-wide trust which I
>> think is less open-source-like - I think we should go with "additive"
>> permissions. For example, I had created an Even Admin role which could
>> be assigned to anyone who was to have admin rights over the
>> event/conference content... This will allow people (or small groups of
>> people) to "own" and be responsible for the respective areas of
>> content on the website as they show interest.
>>     
> Yes, additive permissions better describes what i was thinking of...
>
> Basically, I'm hoping that the additive permissions concept will give
> people the assurance that content published under their name, (whether
> it be an individual, Haiku as a whole, or Haiku Inc., ) will not be
> twisted, re-worded, or intentionally changed with malicious intent.
>   

I am no security expert, but given the number of different content types
that we are talking here, I can't help but think that this approach can
become over complex and bloated very easily.

Cheers,

Jorge

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