Re: Role Manager vs Project Manager Possible Bug?
Gianluca Sforna <[email protected]>
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On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 6:46 PM, John Reese <[email protected]> wrote: > On 03/03/2009 08:56 AM, Jon Hardcastle wrote: >> Hi I think i have found a possible bug.. >> >> If i set a user as having a role of 'viewer' but make them a manager of a specific project; if i have.. >> >> $g_create_project_threshold = MANAGER; >> >> ..specified i would expect them to be able add sub projects but they cant they can only add from an empty dropdown of subprojects. If i give the user a role of manager over all.. They can. >> >> Is this a bug or a feature? > > That's currently "expected" behavior, Expanding a bit on this, it is expected because suprojects are not really entities on their own, but just real projects with a specific link to certain other projects. When this link is active, some code paths are activated to add the features specific to subprojects. So adding a subproject is really adding a project, and you need an higher access level to do so. > but I agree that it is > unintuitive, and could perhaps be useful to have a specific override to > create projects in that context. I know there is at least one (but > likely more) issue in the tracker related to this, but I don't remember > the number of it. The first problem I see with this approach (but I'm sure users will find more) is a manager in project A will be able to create a subproject that a manager in project B will see as available to add as subproject. > > Perhaps we should get more agreement with the development team on this? > I'm not sure how much I can contribute to this. Personally, I don't use (nor recommend) using subprojects because the whole concept does not look intuitive to me, starting from the inheritance implementation. Of course, if you have specific things to discuss, I will happily chime in :) -- Gianluca Sforna http://morefedora.blogspot.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/gianlucasforna ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ mantisbt-help mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mantisbt-help