[pmwiki-users] Concern about insert vs edit

[marc]

Patrick R. Michaud said...
> On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 11:43:04PM -0400, Neil Herber wrote:
> > At 2006-10-01  10:23 PM -0500, Patrick R. Michaud is rumored to have said:
> > >If the way I'm heading is going to be too confusing, it's not too
> > >late to change things, but just as people expect the "read" password
> > >to protect a page from being read (by any action), I suspect we
> > >want the "edit" password to default to protecting a page from
> > >being written (by any action).
> > 
> > It may just be a language issue, but I expect "edit" to mean that I 
> > can change what is there on the page while "comment" is akin to 
> > adding marginal notes to an existing page without modifying the original.
> 
> This is exactly what I'm looking at; "edit" means ability to
> change content, while "insert" means ability to add content but
> not change what is already there.
> 
> > One thing that would be definitely bad, would be to have "comment" 
> > privileges grant "edit" privileges (but edit privileges should grant 
> > comment privs.) Perhaps a password and privilege matrix would make 
> > things clearer.
> 
> All of PmWiki's built-in privileges are orthogonal to each other,
> and the comment ("insert") privilege will be no different in this 
> respect.  Or, stated more plainly, comment privileges do not 
> grant edit privileges.

This all sounds terrific, Patrick. I just wish that my rate of 
comprehension was as fast as your speed of development :-)

-- 
Best,
Marc