Should all new groups be inherited by admin?

David Miller justdave at bugzilla.org
Sat Jun 11 02:44:51 UTC 2005


Max Kanat-Alexander wrote:
> 	I was thinking that I would eventually standardize everywhere that a
> group is added into a single add_group sub in the new Group.pm. I was
> thinking that this subroutine should also automatically grant the
> "admin" group membership in itself.
> 
> 	However, this would be a change from how Bugzilla basically works now,
> where (I think) you have to add that group to the admin group yourself.
> 
> 	However, I think we ought to let admins later remove groups from the
> admin group, if they want. So checksetup wouldn't automatically re-add
> all the groups to the admin group.

All "permission" groups should inherit admin.  That's the whole point of
admin. :)

Bug/role groups, on the other hand, probably shouldn't, unless
explicitly asked for.

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