I think perhaps roles should take part in a class-like hierarchy. It would be useful to be able to say that, for example, "Author" is a subrole of "User", so that if I give "Author" for an user it automagically gets the permissions for "User". In my zope-coding experience this is a very realistic scenario for mass-community sites.

From the point of view of UI, this would mean each role would have to get a "homepage" in the folder it is defined, where you can control its set of "superroles". That shouldn't be too hard.

I'll flesh out the proposal and post it to the appropriated wiki... but first I'd like to collect opinions from the list. (Of course, by its own nature, this feature is optional and backwards-compatible... if you don't want to give superroles to your roles, just don't.) []s, |alo +---- -- Hack and Roll ( http://www.hackandroll.org ) News for, uh, whatever it is that we are. http://zope.gf.com.br/lalo mailto:lalo@hackandroll.org pgp key: http://zope.gf.com.br/lalo/pessoal/pgp Brazil of Darkness (RPG) --- http://zope.gf.com.br/BroDar