On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 2:58 AM, Tim Starling <tstarl...@wikimedia.org>wrote:
> I'm recommending making these "groups" of rights be both a UI concept > and a storage concept, very similar to the existing group feature, > rather than storing right grants and somehow bidirectionally mapping > them to group grants in the UI layer. That way, future code changes > can split rights (e.g. upload -> upload/reupload), and have all the > OAuth grants be implicitly updated by changing the group map. > Sounds good to me. Since we would go crazy trying to talk about both the OAuth feature > and the existing user feature as being "groups", Chris suggested using > the term "permission" to refer to the fundamental unit of an OAuth grant. But then wouldn't it be confused with permissions? Why not just call it a "grant"? Though I guess that has it's own issues since OAuth has authorization grants... *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
