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WARNING: DEV IS CURRENTLY VERY UNSTABLE.
This is a mega-checkin of the new Roles system. A lot of changes have
been made in core and modules.
Currently there are a lot of rough edges and known problems. We are
working hard on these .. .the reason for getting this into HEAD at this
stage is enable us to move faster (our branch was diverging from HEAD
too much).
Please keep an eye on http://docs.moodle.org/en/Roles for current status
and information for developers on how to use the new Roles system.
A new configuration variable is avaliable to limit which fields normal user can see about other users. Teachers/admins can still see the full info.
This provides some degree of privacy for students.
Users can now be assigned to multiple groups. Thanks Yu!
Break out the Bob Marley!!
Otherwise groups work more or less like they did before.
This has been pretty well tested by Yu and myself, but since Yu started
uncovering lots of existing groups bugs it's possible there may be still
a few corner cases still lurking here and there.
Please help test this thoroughly for 1.6!!
Users cannot see their own profile if course is set to separate groups and
the user is not a member of any group.
Patch provided by cdu@somerville.qld.edu.au, slightly modified
Made isteacher() require that the first parameter (course id) be
specified and non-empty. If it is empty, [i.e., 0, which was used to
simulate what has now become isteacherinanycourse()], then the return
value IS correct but a warning is printed on screen. This should allow
us to track down any such calls in legacy modules without breaking Moodle.
The correct way to check for teacher status in ANY course is now to
call isteacherinanycourse().
- teachers can see everyone
- everyone can see teachers
but everyone else is prevented from seeing users. This is regardless
of the forceloginforprofiles setting and is designed to stop mass collection
of user names by browsing through all user names.
