We have a ticket open which details the need to set the ownership of a system by the
group.
Currently, all the code relevant to system ownership (and the actions allowed because of
that ownership) revolves around
the user as the owner.
The areas I can think of that would be affected by such a change are
*Changing system ownership
*Loaning the system
*Changing system details
*All searches related to system owner
Some other I've missed ?
I can think of a couple of ways to go about changing
1)Explicitly allow group ownership.
By this I mean being able to enter in a group name in any field which would have
previously asked for a user name.
This could be problematic and not very intuitive. Do we have 'group owner' and
a 'user owner' field? Are they mutually exclusive? etc etc
The relationship of System.owner would have to change as well.If we want to contact an
owner of a machine how do we do that if it's owned by a group?
2)Allow the owner's group to have owner'esque privileges
Allow the owner of a machine to give full ownership rights to their group, or allow
them to specify a group.
Need to add a field in the DB.
The code changes for this would be simpler. Searches wouldn't have to be modified
(maybe addition of a System/GroupOwner could be added).
System would still have a single user who would ultimately be responsible for the
machine.
I think #2 would be preferable.
Thoughts ?
Raymond