Hi all,

I'm proposing to apply my patch for global groups (as seen on bug 13773[1]) to the CentralAuth extension in the next few days.

Nikerabbit and VasilievVV have already had a look over it, but it's a very big change, including changes to the centralauth schema, and so I'm soliciting a bit more review and/or general awareness of it.

In essence, the extension stores a global equivalent of $wgGroupPermissions and the user_groups table in the centralauth database, and grants users the appropriate rights. A maintenance script is available for adding all local stewards to a global steward group (which is created by the database patch).

I don't currently propose to immediately enable the interface for stewards - we may need to consult the community first, and, in any case, we may wish to grant usage of the interface to some other class of users (perhaps shell users, for the moment?)