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[Guilherme Salgado <salgado@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2009-08-19 at 08:48 -0400, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> Let's say you're an administrator of a team, but not its owner.  You  
> want to anoint other admins to help you with the team.  Unfortunately  
> you can't.
> 
> By design, only the owner of a team can anoint other admins, but that  
> seems questionable.  The owner often doesn't want to be bothered with  
> such trivial things, which is why she made you an admin in the first  
> place!

IIRC, the initial idea was to have only the owner able to promote/demote
admins but then it was agreed that in case an admin misbehaves when the
owner is not around, other admins should be able to demote the
misbehaver. That's why we allow admins to demote other admins.

> 
> It's likely an easy fix to allow an admin to make other admins.  Is  
> there a reason why we would not want to allow this?

Since admins can demote others *and* we send out email notifications
when a regular member becomes admin, I think it'd be ok to allow admins
to promote others.

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Guilherme Salgado <salgado@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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