On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 1:01 PM, Bonnie Corwin<[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Jim, > > The roles do have different status and capabilities within each of the three > collective types. Because the new constitution didn't pass, the base set of > role definitions is a combination of roles defined in the constitution and > roles developed to fill in the gaps. > > Contributor is a role defined in the constitution that applies only to > Community Groups so it only exists in that collective. Projects and User > Groups can not give people Contributor status.
The Contributor role as defined in the Constitution is a Constitutional role. It's clear that it can't be used to control access to resources. (For one thing, Contributor status never expires whereas you would definitely require edit access to the website to be removed if someone moves on.) Note also that Contributor status isn't associated with any specific Community Group. They are given the status by virtue of their contribution to a CG, but the designation is community-wide. The website roles need to be independent of the Constitutional roles. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ website-discuss mailing list [email protected]
