On 8/11/07, Stephen Bain <stephen.bain(a)gmail.com> wrote:
The only bug relating to Tor that I can find in
Bugzilla is one
relating to using a Tor DNSBL to block all Tor exit nodes, I'm
guessing you're not referring to that one.
I believe the bug being referred to is "9862 Separate group for
ipblock-exempt on en.wikipedia".
AB provided a patch which added an ipblock-exempt group, which a user
could be added to to be exempt from IP blocks (but not from username
blocks), but this was rejected because the power wouldn't be available
to bureaucrats (the software only allowed stewards to perform such a
feat). Then Simetrical made a patch to implement Special:MakeIPExempt
which would allow bureaucrats to put users in the group, but this
patch was rejected because it was considered too messy to use yet
another Special: extension. Bug 6711 addressed this, and is now
resolved. It adds a Special:Userrights page and exactly who has the
power to do what can be configured on a site by site basis. So now
that 6711 is resolved it seems to me that AB's patch should now be
accepted. Then, any wiki running the new version of the software can
allow assignments to the ipblock-exempt group using
Special:Userrights, so long as the appropriate $wgAddGroups line is
added to the config file.
Once the patch is accepted, it'd be up to the individual projects to
decide who, if anyone, should be allowed to assign users to this
group. Presumably for wikien it'll be the bureaucrats, who will
assign/remove users to the group after a successful !vote.
Alternatively, sysops could be trusted to assign/remove users to the
group, either after a successful !vote, or under their own judgment.