[Tracker-discuss] Managing the tracker metadata options

[Stefan Seefeld]

Paul Dubois wrote:
> The normal way one gets a new role is that admin (or to be precise, a
> user with edit permissions on class User) goes to their user record and
> edits the field 'Roles' to add to the comma-delimited list of roles.
> 
> There is no way for the user to do this themselves nor should there be
> because gaining a role gains permissions.
> 
> This is, for a normal tracker, no big deal and doing things like this
> was one of the things I expected to do as a member of the Gang of Four.
> 
> However, the inability to get to a user record quickly at the moment
> would make this a tough thing to do very much of.
> 

I'm not sure in what sense you use the term 'normal' here. I certainly
don't want admins to be required to play any role in the process of
adding users, or giving new previleges to them.

Regards,
		Stefan

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