Naming of system groups

Joel Peshkin bugreport at peshkin.net
Wed Jun 16 20:20:16 UTC 2004


Maxwell Kanat-Alexander wrote:

>>The thing to watch out for here is people who have customized their 
>>Bugzilla using UserInGroup() tests...  this kind of thing needs big bold 
>>letters in the release notes if we do it. :)
>>    
>>
>
>	Indeed. I would probably suggest that any groups that existed in 2.16
>should have the same names as they did, and only groups added to 2.18
>should have the underscore added.
>
>	Or, if this change is happening in 2.20, do it for 2.20-added groups.
>
>	Renaming things can cause a lot of pain.
>
>	-Max
>
>  
>
That makes a lot of sense.  The only question in my mind is what to do 
about "admin"






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