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[Barry Warsaw <barry@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Aug 20, 2009, at 9:00 AM, Guilherme Salgado wrote:

> 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.

Bug 102180 describes this issue.  I've updated the bug title to be  
more descriptive of the problem.

https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/launchpad-registry/+bug/102180

-Barry

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