[Clipart] Pages updated. Need a glance over.

[Bassel Safadi]

On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 12:36 PM, chovynz <chovynz at gmail.com> wrote:

> Also I mention next problem - when user is 'sysgod' he haven't librarians
> tools - for example - since I have admin rights on internal side of OCAL I
> couldn't fix tags at outer OCAL side (at particular clipart page).
> That's deliberate. See below. (However I would also say that sysgods have
> different tools than librarians, just ones that they need, instead of using
> tools that the librarian needs. The two roles are quite different. For
> instance, I would probably better suit a librarian role, but since things
> need doing, I've taken on a sysgod role until I have finished making the
> tools that I need as a librarian, then I'll probably spend more time on that
> librarian role.)
>
> As I see chovynz share two accounts - one for librarian work, one for aiki
> admin work. Could it be joined together?
> It's possible, but I'm not going to do that, and Bassel said it's strongly
> not recommended for security and permissions reasons. He said it's best to
> leave them separate to do different things. Sysgod shouldn't be fixing the
> content of the site, and librarians shouldn't be doing things on the website
> creation and management. Sysgods should be working on the background
> structure, and librarians should be working on the clipart and content, and
> supporting / helping the artists. After a big long talk I am tending to
> agree with him. He can explain more if he thinks the discussion needs it. Or
> you could ask more specific questions, and I'll answer them as best as I
> can. :-)
>
> I also have just a regular account with no extra privileges to test what
> happens for "normal users". Because of the security talks, I was surprised
> when he just changed your account to sysgod, instead of asking you to make
> one specifically for the sysgod role. Must've been tired that night :-) :-)
> However, now you know why I have three accounts instead of just one.
>
>
btw: the latest aiki 0.7 that runs ocal supports sharing permissions with
higher levels. aka sysgods having Librarian tools. but as Chovynz mentioned
it's highly not recommended to do so because of the way those tools are
built. specially in the specific case of editing tags.



> What about default userpic icon - that's great theme for contest I think ;)
> Great idea!
>
> --
> Cheers
> Chovynz
>
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