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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- haiku-web@xxxxxxxxxxxxx - Haiku Web & Developer Support Discussion List