[wp-hackers] GSoC 2009 : User Roles Project Idea

[TalkOut a.k.a. Nimal]

Thanks Mike... I will read more onto this.


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TalkOut / Nimal

On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 9:05 PM, Mike Schinkel
<mikeschinkel at newclarity.net>wrote:

> Hi Nimal:
>
> I'd like to see named roles and ability to assign rights to user roles as
> well as assign users to roles both on a user admin page as well as on a role
> admin page.  I'd like to see a system that supports defining an effectively
> unlimited number of different type of rights where a plugin could define its
> own rights such as "User can Rate Post", "User can Upload Avatar", "User can
> Edit SEO Options" and so on.
>
> Lastly, the checks in code for these rights need to be highly optimized so
> that adding user management does not add significant processing overhead to
> plugins (and possibly core) that may use it.
>
> Does this help?
>
>
> -Mike Schinkel
> http://mikeschinkel.com/
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "TalkOut a.k.a. Nimal" <talkout at gmail.com>
> To: wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com
> Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 9:28:26 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> Subject: [wp-hackers] GSoC 2009 : User Roles Project Idea
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm planning to apply for WordPress in GSoC 2009, having worked on
> WordPress
> and PHP for the last couple of years. I'm an undergraduate at University of
> Moratuwa specializing in Computer Science and Engineering.
>
> I'm more interested in the idea on User Roles mentioned in GSoC2009 page on
> codex. I've been using couple of user role plug-ins for WP in some of my
> blogs because the current system couldn't do all that is needed.
>
> I would like to hear from the WP hackers on what features could be added in
> User Roles, and I would like to know more about this project idea in the
> context of GSoC 2009.
>
> Thanks.
>
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> TalkOut / Nimal
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