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== Preface == Actually the cute [Phabricator's Countdown application](https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/applications/view/PhabricatorCountdownApplication/) has a "Can Use Application " who decides both: * who can see Countdowns * who can create a Countdown Now, the bad news (and this could cause some __heart attack__ so please, those who are sensitive, leave this page before reading the next sentence): > Actually, only a small circle of evil people called #trusted-contributors can see cute Countdowns. Why? Because this is our current situation to protect us from spam we have this setup: * Can see application (and create Countdowns as well): #trusted-contributors While this should be our preferred common sense use case: * Can see application: public * Can create Countdowns: #trusted-contributors == Proposal == Following the [Phabricator's Diffusion application](https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/applications/view/PhabricatorDiffusionApplication/) policies that has a cute "Can Create Repositories" policy, it would be nice to introduce a new policy capability called "Can create Countdowns" to literally decide who can create a Countdown and restrict only that, instead of restricting who can see them as well. In short, somewhere in the code we should add a: ``` $can_create = $this->hasApplicationCapability( PhabricatorCountdownCapabilityCreate::CAPABILITY ); ``` Or something like that, creating the related class in [phabricator/src/applications/countdown/capability/](https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/source/phabricator/browse/wmf%252Fstable/src/applications/countdown/capability/).

== Preface == Actually the cute [Phabricator's Countdown application](https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/applications/view/PhabricatorCountdownApplication/) has a "Can Use Application " who decides both: * who can see Countdowns * who can create a Countdown Now, the bad news (and this could cause some __heart attack__ so please, those who are sensitive, leave this page before reading the next sentence): > Actually, only a small circle of evil people called #trusted-contributors can see cute Countdowns. Why? Because to protect us from spam we have this setup: * Can see application (and create Countdowns as well): #trusted-contributors While this should be our preferred common sense use case: * Can see application: public * Can create Countdowns: #trusted-contributors == Proposal == Following the [Phabricator's Diffusion application](https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/applications/view/PhabricatorDiffusionApplication/) policies that has a cute "Can Create Repositories" policy, it would be nice to introduce a new policy capability called "Can create Countdowns" to literally decide who can create a Countdown and restrict only that, instead of restricting who can see them as well. In short, somewhere in the code we should add a: ``` $can_create = $this->hasApplicationCapability( PhabricatorCountdownCapabilityCreate::CAPABILITY ); ``` Or something like that, creating the related class in [phabricator/src/applications/countdown/capability/](https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/source/phabricator/browse/wmf%252Fstable/src/applications/countdown/capability/).

== Preface == Actually the cute [Phabricator's Countdown application](https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/applications/view/PhabricatorCountdownApplication/) has a "Can Use Application " who decides both: * who can see Countdowns * who can create a Countdown Now, the bad news (and this could cause some __heart attack__ so please, those who are sensitive, leave this page before reading the next sentence): > Actually, only a small circle of evil people called #trusted-contributors can see cute Countdowns. Why? Because this is our current situation to protect us from spam we have this setup: * Can see application (and create Countdowns as well): #trusted-contributors While this should be our preferred common sense use case: * Can see application: public * Can create Countdowns: #trusted-contributors == Proposal == Following the [Phabricator's Diffusion application](https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/applications/view/PhabricatorDiffusionApplication/) policies that has a cute "Can Create Repositories" policy, it would be nice to introduce a new policy capability called "Can create Countdowns" to literally decide who can create a Countdown and restrict only that, instead of restricting who can see them as well. In short, somewhere in the code we should add a: ``` $can_create = $this->hasApplicationCapability( PhabricatorCountdownCapabilityCreate::CAPABILITY ); ``` Or something like that, creating the related class in [phabricator/src/applications/countdown/capability/](https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/source/phabricator/browse/wmf%252Fstable/src/applications/countdown/capability/).