[geeklog-devel] GSOC 2010 application for Improvement in Configurations GUI

[Abhishek Shrivastava]

> I would hate to see the feature table expand by several hundred entries
that most people would not use. The should be grouped.
> Anyone who can change the site_url should have equal access to every other
path related configuration. There's no reason to
> separate it. Likewise, anyone who could change the site_name, should have
equal access to many other settings. The existing
>features (like polls.admin) are sufficient for adding permissions to the
configuration system. In the end if you need to add more than
>a handful of features to the system, you've gotten too fine grained.

I understand your concern. Thats why I suggested there should be a different
table for configuration permissions. All the configurations will be grouped
into certain groups and those groups will also have permissions as a whole.
For mapping configuration to groups, this can be done in the existing
conf_values table itself without having to add any new rows. Only a new
column is required to be added in the conf_values to take care of which
configuration belongs to which groups.
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