When a user is added as publisher, the user can get a notification saying he/she was added as a publisher to the newsletter. On clicking on the notification, you will be taken to a page where you can remove yourself. Or should the publisher be asked to uncheck the publisher checkbox in Special:ManageNewsletter ?
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| Subject | Repo | Branch | Lines +/- | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Allow users with 'newsletter-manage' right to add/remove publishers | mediawiki/extensions/Newsletter | master | +67 -39 |
| Status | Subtype | 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 | Glaisher | T110327 Add user rights for Newsletter extension | |||
| Resolved | Glaisher | T114145 Allow publishers to remove themselves |
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Publishers can already remove publishers through the manage interface. Any publisher of a newsletter can remove any publisher for that particular newsletter. But I don't think it's necessary to allow removing self from publishers because they are not forced to do anything just because they are a publisher. We don't allow users to remove themselves from user groups in MediaWiki core either unless configured to do so.
However, I believe we should restrict removing publishers to a user right (merge add-publishers rights and remove-publisher rights to a single right) instead of the current model in which any publisher can remove any publisher from the newsletter. It's probably a bad idea to keep it the current way and was actually kept like this during removal of ownership system; previously it was restricted to owners. Changing this would make it more consistent with MediaWiki's user permissions system.
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Makes kind of sense.
The initial idea here is that if someone makes me publisher without my consent, I should have a way to not accept that user right or give it back. It is true that having that user right doesn't force me to do anything, but I will be appearing as a publisher, and someone might deduce that I'm responsible for something (especially if I happen to be the only one, because the rest left). So there are some implications...
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Ah, indeed. I didn't consider this so it's probably fine to let publishers remove themselves even if they don't have the right for it.
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I just tested this. I can click "Remove" and the row with my username is removed, but if I reload the page I'm still these as publisher.
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Looks like this is working for me. I clicked on "Remove" button and the row got removed and it didn't appear after reload. Something else is broken then?
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Ah, the manage API only works if you have the newsletter-addpublisher right. :/ I guess your account didn't have that right.
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Change 252724 had a related patch set uploaded (by Glaisher):
Allow users with 'newsletter-manage' right to add/remove publishers
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Change 252724 merged by jenkins-bot:
Allow users with 'newsletter-manage' right to add/remove publishers