Forum OpenACS Improvement Proposals (TIPs): Tip #77: (Approved) Package parameter scope and permissioning

I would like to add the following two fields to parameters in the .info file with associated support in the apm: SCOPE and CONTEXT.

Scope would be package or sitewide and would indicate whether there was a single sitewide parameters which would apply to all package instances or a per package parameter. The default would be package (matching current behavior).

Context would be either package, subsite, or mainsite and would indicate the permissioning context of the parameter and would default to "package" which matches the current defacto permissioning (which is to check admin on the package to get access to the parameter).

The motiviation for these changes is to allow us to create an admin interface which uses parameter permissions to drive which parameters a package admin can see and to correct the longstanding problem that some parameters are not sensible to have as per package parameters (executable paths for example where they are really site-wide).

I have not done the work for this but I wanted to gauge the level of interest in doing this before I approached it.