[annotator-dev] Permission and filter plugins

Tue Jul 5 10:45:37 UTC 2011

On 30 June 2011 16:47, Aron Carroll <aron.carroll.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm looking for some general feedback on the annotator and the backend store
> particularly in regard to use cases for both the filter and permissions
> plugins.

These are 2 separate items right?

> Currently the filter plugin allows you to filter out (hide) annotations on
> the page that do not match keywords. These filters can be applied to any of
> the annotation properties such as content, users, tags etc. There's also
> scope to turn it more into an admin bar for managing annotations but I'm not
> sure if that should be a separate plugin (or service) all together. Are
> there any particular features that you feel are essential for
> navigating/managing annotations?

I think filter by user or sets of users is probably essential (with
obvious option of 'only show my annotations'). I think it would also
be useful to filter by tag.

@Andrea: you had some suggestions regarding the Admin type stuff?

> Secondly the users and permissions for the annotator store currently allows
> annotations to be set as viewable and editable by either the creator or
> anyone. Deletion can only be performed by the creator. We're currently
> discussing whether there needs to be more flexibility in setting ownership
> of annotations perhaps using groups (or teams) so any thoughts on this would
> be appreciated.

We discussed this yesterday and result is this comment on the ticket:

<https://github.com/okfn/annotator/issues/49#issuecomment-1498535>

Rufus