Re: New proposals for externalizing Roller user/permissions management

2007-08-01 Thread Elliot Lee
Allen Gilliland wrote: i also like that you've redone the permission table, which seems to simplify things as well, but can we carry that on from my suggestion above and just store all permission data in that table, including roles and weblog permissions? would that work? this way if you add

Re: New proposals for externalizing Roller user/permissions management

2007-07-18 Thread Elliot Lee
Dave wrote: Yes, when Roller is used with an externalized perms system the existing Roller permssions UI should be disabled, do we also need links to the external perms management UI? Hi Dave, It'd be nice to have the option, yes. I think the permissions UI stuff might be a little more complic

Re: New proposals for externalizing Roller user/permissions management

2007-07-12 Thread Elliot Lee
Hi Dave and others, Looks like an interesting start. Here are some comments :) On externalizing user management... Abstracting the directory of user profiles: In 2.1.2 (Possible solutions), possible solution #1, you state that the user object is needed because it's used in joins and queries.

Introduction

2007-06-27 Thread Elliot Lee
Hi, I'm a software engineer at Lulu.com. As part of the community features on our site, we allow users to maintain blogs there. However, the system that is currently implemented is very old/slow/ugly/hated. We have a relatively large user base, but only 6k have ever posted to their blog, and