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[Guilherme Salgado <salgado@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2009-08-20 at 09:07 -0300, Christian Robottom Reis wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 10:48:27AM -0300, Guilherme Salgado wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Yeah, sounds okay to me. Is this documented anywhere?

It's not, and people get confused when they realize they can demote but
not promote admins.  If we allow them to promote as well, the confusion
will stop and we might not need to document it.

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Guilherme Salgado <salgado@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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