When using Admin interface to manage discussions, DISCUSSION_MODERATE perm not handled properly.

[anonymous]

trac 10.3, python 2.4, TracDiscussion-0.5-py2.4.egg I have a group defined as 'developer' which does not have DISCUSSION_MODERATE perm. I have a group defined as 'editor' which inherits all of 'developer' perms and adds DISCUSSION_MODERATE perm. On our site there are 12 individuals with 'developer' permission, and 3 individuals with 'editor' permission. All 3 individuals with 'editor' permission show up in the list of possible moderators in the Admin / Component view. An additional 6 individuals with only 'developer' permissions show up also as moderators, but the other 6 individuals with 'developer' permission do not.

Perplexing, but no good ideas at this point on how to diagnose. Will try to read through code when I get some time.

[Radek Bartoň]

If you mean by "Admin / Component view" "Forums" page in WebAdmin plugin, threre is list box with all known users by Trac in "Edit Forum" or "Add Forum" forms. The reason why there are 6 users missing is that they have not changed anything in Trac yet and Trac's internal function get_known_users don't return them. To assign some user to be able to moderate some forum he/she has to have DISCUSSION_MODERATE and be added to list of moderators of particular forum. Only users with DISCUSSION_ADMIN can moderate forum and not be added to list of moderators. So I think this ticket is not bug but feature :-). Possible improvement would be that there would be listet only user with DISCUSSION_MODERATE premission in list box but there would be problems if you add some user to moderators of some forum and then you revoke him/her DISCUSSION_MODERATE permission.