⚓ T108482 Assign ownership of newsletter to another user

	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	Restrict adding publishers to 'newsletter-addpublisher' right	mediawiki/extensions/Newsletter	master	+30 -10
	Remove ownership system from Newsletter	mediawiki/extensions/Newsletter	master	+60 -113

Status	Assigned	Task
Duplicate	Qgil	T125545 Phabricator Q&A session for Community Liaisons
Resolved	Qgil	T116025 Goal: Align Community Liaison and Developer Relations project management practices
Resolved	Qgil	T119387 Community Liaison and Developer Relation quarterly goals for January - March 2016
Declined	None	T104131 Exporting existing newsletter to the Newsletter extension
Resolved	Addshore	T110170 Goal: Deploy Newsletter extension in Wikimedia
Resolved	Qgil	T110642 Implement all the features required for running the Newsletter extension in Wikimedia
Resolved	Tinaj1234	T108482 Assign ownership of newsletter to another user

Tinaj1234 created this task.Aug 8 2015, 4:55 PM

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Tinaj1234 added a parent task: T101832: Managing an existing Newsletter.Aug 8 2015, 4:56 PM

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Tinaj1234 moved this task from Backlog to To be closed at the earliest on the MediaWiki-extensions-Newsletter board.Aug 27 2015, 7:13 AM

Qgil added a parent task: T110642: Implement all the features required for running the Newsletter extension in Wikimedia.Aug 28 2015, 11:09 AM

How about just getting rid of the concept of owners entirely? That would make things a lot simpler. Currently, it looks like the only purpose of owners is to assign publishers. IMO, we should add a new right for letting privileged users add publishers to newsletters. This would be more in line with MediaWiki's user permissions system.

Qgil raised the priority of this task from Low to Medium.Aug 28 2015, 11:37 AM

Qgil moved this task from To be closed at the earliest to Feature complete on the MediaWiki-extensions-Newsletter board.Aug 28 2015, 11:46 AM

Yes, reducing permissions to Publishers might make sense. We still have the problem of what happens when there are no Publishers active, who can give permissions to new publishers. I guess the admins of the site can always act?

Change 238753 had a related patch set uploaded (by Tinaj1234):
Add new user rights to Newsletter extension

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/238753

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Sep 16 2015, 2:46 PM

Change 238753 merged by jenkins-bot:
Restrict adding publishers to 'newsletter-addpublisher' right

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/238753

Diffusion mentioned this in rMEXTa1a9cee8d803: Updated mediawiki/extensions Project: mediawiki/extensions/Newsletter….Sep 24 2015, 12:07 PM

Glaisher mentioned this in rENLT0d7eb41f4f4e: Restrict adding publishers to 'newsletter-addpublisher' right.Sep 24 2015, 12:08 PM

Change 240750 had a related patch set uploaded (by Glaisher):
Remove ownership system from Newsletter

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/240750