On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 8:39 PM, George Herbert
<george.herbert(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Without having time to deep-dive the source code
tonight -
How difficult do developers feel that it would be to add the ability
to block an account or IP range and only remove the ability to create
accounts, not remove the ability to edit?
We have the bit to block and block account creation (or not), and the
AO vs hard block bits, but this would presumably be a bit for block
but don't prevent edits...
If the code already allows this, the UI currently doesn't, and that
would be a plus. I don't recall what the code does, though. If we'd
need to add support in the code to do this, I will look into that
more.
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-george william herbert
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It's not a trivial amount of work. What needs to be done here is
breaking up blocks into a per-right system where individual rights
can be removed from an account (or groups of rights, for ease
of use). What does *NOT* need to happen is having additional
columns tacked on for each right we see fit to block at a given
time (account creation, upload, emailuser, were all done as hacks
IMHO).
I opened bug 14636 almost 2 years ago requesting this feature,
but I haven't gotten around to doing it and nobody else has
stepped up to the plate.
-Chad