[Zope-CMF] Re: [dev] delete members: small proposal

[Yuppie]

Hi Chris!


Chris Withers wrote:
> Yuppie wrote:
> 
>> Ownership is limited to one person. changeOwnership() isn't accessable 
>> TTW by default. Ownership without the Owner Role doesn't make much 
>> sense, but the Owner Role without Ownership does.
> 
> 
> True, whoever cam up with 'ownership' as a concept seperate from the 
> Owner role deserves to be shot. Well, provided you fix 
> http://collector.zope.org/CMF/25, I'd be happy if deleteMember didn't do 
> anything with ownership...

#25 is on my private list of issues that have to be resolved before 
releasing CMF 1.5, but I can't promise I'll fix that issue.

>> If there would be a consensus that the Owner Role is the place to 
>> store responsibilities, it might make sense to add an option for 
>> transfering the Owner Role to an other user before deleting the user.
> 
> 
> That would be good, but make sure it handles the cases where there's 
> more than one person with the owner role on an object...

It's a nice to have, but I don't have the time to do it. Hope you can 
live without it, at least for now.


Cheers,
	Yuppie