[308] in Athena User Interface
Re: Current thinking on gZephyr
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Tibbetts)
Fri Jul 21 05:31:39 2000
Message-Id: <200007210931.FAA21183@hikari-no-ken.mit.edu>
To: Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@MIT.EDU>
cc: Richard Tibbetts <tibbetts@MIT.EDU>, aui@MIT.EDU, tibbetts@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 21 Jul 2000 05:17:23 EDT."
<200007210917.FAA18299@riff-raff.mit.edu>
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 05:31:35 -0400
From: Richard Tibbetts <tibbetts@MIT.EDU>
On 7/21 Garry wrote:
> There are a variety of approaches to the problem, and Ops doesn't
> like any of them. I can speak officially for Ops when I say we will not
> be allowing arbitrary users to have acl'ed zephyr classes, and
> consideration thereof is out of scope for the AUI project. Assume
> acl'ed classes do not exist, and role play accordingly.
<whine>Bill, Garry is being mean to me!</whine>
My reaction to this is to continue to call them "group" and "topic"
(make it easily configurable to "classic" names). Encourage professors
to use classes rather than instances. Then wait for the pressure to
force Ops to log random classes, and possibly to acl them. (sorry
Garry, I am playing to win rather than playing to roleplay)
tibbetts
PS: As far as AUI is concerned, this is a discussion over two labels
(each a single line of code) in one of our pieces of software. If
we make it configurable, then it is a discussion over one line in
a default config file. Whatever.
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