Forum OpenACS Development: Re: What were the contents of priv_email, priv_name etc.?

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4: Re: What were the contents of priv_email, priv_name etc.? (response to 1)
Posted by Lars Pind on 10/02/03 09:46 AM
Michael, File a bug report.

Tillmann: Since we've never honored them, I don't think it matter what they might have once stood for. Let's figure out what we want them to mean, and do it for the first release possible (given resources).

I think we'll want something along this axis:

- never show
- show to registered users
- show to other members of this subsite
- show to admins
- never show

perhaps eliminating a few of them.

/L

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5: Re: What were the contents of priv_email, priv_name etc.? (response to 4)
Posted by Tilmann Singer on 10/02/03 07:33 PM
Micheal, thanks for those links - weird that google hasn't indexed that site.

So these were the initial semantics:

0 means "show to everybody"
5 means "show to other registered users"
9 means "show to nobody except maintainers"

Lars: yeah I don't say we have to copy them, I was just looking for inspiration, assuming that there might have gone some thought into it by aD already.

I think 'never show' and 'show to admins' is redundant, at least if you mean site-wide admins, since those could always look into the db directly anyway. 'Show to other members of subsite' makes a lot of sense though - I wonder if 'show to admins of subsite' would be needed too.

I think assigning it integers with some gaps in it for future or site-specific extensions would be good, as well as making it scalar (is that the correct word?) so that higher values always mean more restricted, with 0 as lowest value 'show to all', so that comparisons like $priv_email>$privacy_threshold will always work regardless of later extensions.