[Radiant] Adminstrator and Developer role clarification

[Chris Parrish]

John,  have you ever considered changing the name "developer" to 
"designer"?  I think it'd be more clear.

Also, I'd think clarity could be further improved by:

    * Showing that there is a Basic user privilege level that is applied
      when Administrator and Developer are not checked.  It's not always
      clear that you still get something when all the options are
      unchecked and it's certainly not clear what that "something" is
      permitted to do. (Perhaps a name like "Writer" or "Author" would
      help).

    * Currently, Radiant's permission structure has 3 permission levels
      -- each with progressively more authority (i.e. Developer = Basic
      User + Unique Developer Powers and Administrator = Developer +
      Unique Admin Powers).  So checking Administrator *and* Developer
      makes no sense -- yet today this is an option.  That's really
      where this thread's question comes from.

      I can think of several ways to prevent this confusion to users but
      first the decision needs to be made whether this progression of
      powers is the best approach or whether roles should only consist
      of their unique capabilities (i.e. Admin just includes permissions
      to edit Users and Extension not any Developer stuff -- to get
      those privileges, you'd need to add the Developer role to your
      user).  I'm used to the former since that's what we have today but
      I can think of cases where I'd have an Admin who doesn't have
      Developer privileges.  The latter method is also more extensible
      since others may add roles that don't fit the subset/superset
      approach.


-Chris



John W. Long wrote:
> On Jun 21, 2008, at 4:21 PM, Alex Wayne wrote:
>> Are my assumptions right?  I just want to be sure that in my public
>> extensions I am exposing the right sections to the right users.
>
>
> Nope.
>
> An administrator is a superuser. A developer can do everything, but 
> create and edit other users. The two roles are really more akin to 
> "root" and "designer".
>
> -- 
> John Long
> http://wiseheartdesign.com
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