Re: Menu Manager ACL

[Richard McDaniel]

Well, I haven't gotten any interest in this lately so I'll just put it on the back burner for now.

[elin]

This is how all of us feel at times.  I have important patches that have been in the tracker since March that have not been tested enough. With a complex proposal like yours it will take the sustained efforts of probably 4-5 people for 2-3 weeks to test it, generate complex and large enough data sets to test on, figure out the implications for migration and so on.

As of now we have the following proposals on the table.

Your proposal to extend asset tracking to the menu item level.

Sander's proposal to extend it to the module level.

Sebastien's proposal to add back end access level as a new field.

My suggestion that we consider extending asset tracking to weblinks, contacts and newsfeeds. 

We also have serious problems with parent id as Sander pointed out in the comments on the pull request and as I asked about in a detailed unanswered question on the platform mailing list.  Without knowing the intended behavior for items not using the category system it is extremely difficult to move forward with asset management without answers on that.

I would really not recommend edit.own as part of this solution. There are good reasons it was only used in one extension in the core. Simply getting baseline ACL for menus is itself a huge challenge. Make  user groups with one member if you want to implement that in a way that will be efficient. 

Elin

On Monday, July 23, 2012 2:48:21 PM UTC-4, Richard McDaniel wrote:

Well, I haven't gotten any interest in this lately so I'll just put iti on the back burner for now. 

[Mindaugas Girdvainis]

Hello Richard,

I am looking for something similar to adopt in my university too. I would gladly help you test it. Have you dropped the development? Or is there something going on?

Mindaugas

On Friday, 13 July 2012 19:38:51 UTC+3, Richard McDaniel wrote:

I'm working on adding ACL to menu types and menu items. This allows for finer-grained control. The university I work for uses this to prevent different colleges and departments from being able to modify each others menus. This is also useful for locking down the main menu so only super admins can change it.

Screenshots:

http://i.imgur.com/FgUND.png
http://i.imgur.com/tCS2E.png

Pull Request:

https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/pull/212

What We Need:

1. Lots of testing.
2. Migration scripts.
3. Performance benchmarks.

Please let me know what other information or assistance I can provide. Thanks!