Expose information about user blocks via Authority and PermissionStatus
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	• Pchelolo
	Jan 7 2021, 11:20 PM

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Authority needs to expose information about user blocks, to allow callers to provide more helpful information to users who are blocked from performing a specific action.

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Related Changes in Gerrit:

	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	Authority: expose user block info	mediawiki/core	master	+435 -125
	Introduce Block interface and replace AbstractBlock.	mediawiki/core	master	+296 -85

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Status	Assigned	Task
Open	None	T218674 User::getRights() applies session rights restrictions to non-session users
Resolved	None	T180888 All permission checks should be able to return a custom error message
Open	None	T231930 Introduce Authority objects to represent the user performing a given action
Resolved	• Pchelolo	T271494 Expose information about user blocks via Authority and PermissionStatus

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• Pchelolo created this task.Jan 7 2021, 11:20 PM

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• Pchelolo moved this task from Unsorted pile to Authority pile on the Platform Team Workboards (MW Expedition) board.Jan 8 2021, 4:42 AM

• Pchelolo triaged this task as Low priority.Jan 19 2021, 6:30 PM

Change 670570 had a related patch set uploaded (by Daniel Kinzler; author: Daniel Kinzler):

[mediawiki/core@master] Authority: expose user block info

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/670570

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Apr 14 2021, 7:58 PM

Change 680325 had a related patch set uploaded (by Daniel Kinzler; author: Daniel Kinzler):

[mediawiki/core@master] Introduce Block interface.

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/680325

Change 680325 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/core@master] Introduce Block interface and replace AbstractBlock.

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/680325

ReleaseTaggerBot added a project: MW-1.37-notes (1.37.0-wmf.6; 2021-05-18).May 11 2021, 7:00 PM

WE went a different direction.

Re-opening and shifting the code a bit. The ticket is linked in several places.

daniel renamed this task from BlockManager::getUserBlock should be split into User and Authority block lookup to Expose information about user blocks via Authority and PermissionStatus.Jun 8 2021, 12:04 PM

daniel raised the priority of this task from Low to High.

daniel updated the task description. (Show Details)

• Pchelolo moved this task from Authority pile to Waiting for Review on the Platform Team Workboards (MW Expedition) board.Jun 17 2021, 9:09 PM

Change 670570 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/core@master] Authority: expose user block info

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/670570

• Pchelolo moved this task from Waiting for Review to On the train on the Platform Team Workboards (MW Expedition) board.Jun 30 2021, 3:15 PM

Maintenance_bot removed a project: Patch-For-Review.Jun 30 2021, 4:10 PM

• Pchelolo closed this task as Resolved.Jul 13 2021, 3:15 PM

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