Re: pglister: bug: Can't add moderators (and create lists)

On Sat, Sep 18, 2021 at 11:53 AM Célestin Matte
<celestin(dot)matte(at)cmatte(dot)me> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm still in the process of writing an install script for pglister. I'm at the point where auth is working and I'm testing lists.
>
> In the interface (in /admin/lists/list/1/change/), I cannot create a list because the "Moderators" field is always empty, and django won't let me create a list without moderators.

The reason the moderators field is mandatory, is that it's what's used
to populate the list ownership alias. I think there may have been
other reasons as well, see the commit message in 78dc0eea, but I don't
recall exactly what they are. But that is definitely one reason for it
being there now, so we can't remove that.

You should be able to add any Subscriber as a moderator, they don't
have to be a member of the particular list. The Subscriber entry is
created the first time the user logged in, see
web/pglister/lists/migration.py. Did you somehow manage to log in
without this happening?

> As a workaround, I removed the necessity to have a moderator to test if I can add subscribers after list creation, but I still cannot add any after list creation. See migration attached (I added both patch and migration, I'm not sure how you're supposed to properly edit django apps)
> I'm a bit confused because django has "staff" and "superuser", but none of that is the same as moderators, and I can't seem to find the way to promote a user into one.

Staff and Superuser are django functions and have nothing to do with
the pglister "application level" features. They are both required to
access /admin/ though, but they don't affect the rest of the
application.

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