#7051 (Rename users.Authority to users.Authorization)
by Luc Saffre · in Developers · assigned to Luc Saffre
Summary
The model name is a historic misnomer. The recipient does not get authority over the author but the author's authorization to act as them.
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- 1 week, 3 days ago by Luc Saffre about #7051 (Rename users.Authority to users.Authorization) : There are still 5 test failures in the book because I modified some help texts.
- 1 week, 4 days ago by Luc Saffre about #7051 (Rename users.Authority to users.Authorization) : I pushed my changes, which are spread over 20 repositories, including vuejs, react and seggi.
- 1 week, 4 days ago by Luc Saffre in reply to Luc Saffre about #7051 (Rename users.Authority to users.Authorization) : It was because i have multiple currentmodule:: directives in book/docs/plugins/users.rst
- 1 week, 4 days ago by Luc Saffre about #7051 (Rename users.Authority to users.Authorization) (1 reply) : TODO: With my current local changes I have one doctest failure that needs further digging.
The help text "Edit your user preferences." for the "My settings" comes from book/docs/plugins/users.rst, but right now it gets overridden by the generic default value defined in ShowDetail.attach_to_actor met... - 1 week, 4 days ago by Luc Saffre about #7051 (Rename users.Authority to users.Authorization) : So I'll use "z" and not "s". Because we have already .ssh/authorized_keys, and because en_US is the default locale on a new Ubuntu, and because...
- 1 week, 4 days ago by Luc Saffre about #7051 (Rename users.Authority to users.Authorization) : But we also have DisplayColors (not DisplayColours).
- 1 week, 4 days ago by Luc Saffre about #7051 (Rename users.Authority to users.Authorization) : The field that points to the other user (the grantee, the user who receives authorisation) was named "authorized". I now renamed it to "recipient" rather than "authorised", in order to avoid the s or z question and because single-word field names should not be nouns, not adjectives.
- 1 week, 4 days ago by Luc Saffre about #7051 (Rename users.Authority to users.Authorization) : I knew that this silly change would cause much work for adapting the docs. I'm still not finished.
- 1 week, 4 days ago by Luc Saffre about #7051 (Rename users.Authority to users.Authorization) : I had to decide whether it is Authorization or Authorisation (US or UK spelling). And I chose UK over US for political reasons. If some day I will get murdered without any evident motive, this might be the explanation.
- 1 week, 4 days ago by Luc Saffre about #7051 (Rename users.Authority to users.Authorization) : Created new Ticket #7051 (Rename users.Authority to users.Authorisation).