[buddypress-trac] [BuddyPress] #3695: Basic profile privacy

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#3695: Basic profile privacy
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 Reporter:  boonebgorges                       |       Owner:  cnorris23
     Type:  enhancement                        |      Status:  accepted
 Priority:  normal                             |   Milestone:  Future
Component:  Core                               |  Release
 Severity:  normal                             |     Version:
 Keywords:  needs-patch dev-feedback needs-ui  |  Resolution:
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Comment (by boonebgorges):

 We had some discussions about this in last week's dev chat. Some
 takeaways:

 - My suggestion (1) above is really a necessity. The patch currently
 requires another database hit for every profile field, which will not
 scale well.
 - Paul's main concern (which I share) is that we are compatible with any
 future move that WP might make to using WP caps/current_user_can(). My
 understanding of WP caps is incomplete (to say the least), but from what I
 do get, you can filter map_meta_cap with whatever data you want, which
 means that your suggested method should work fine. But in any case, before
 considering for inclusion in BP core, I think it's crucial that we either
 do a proof-of-concept to show that we are able to do the necessary mapping
 down the road, *or* that we actually rewrite cnorris23's patch to use
 current_user_can(). In this way, this privacy stuff could be a testing
 ground for the future migration of BP caps (which are currently all over
 the place) to a more organized WP caps schema
 - It probably makes sense to plugin-first with this, since time is getting
 short on this dev cycle. It should be fairly easy to wrap into a plugin
 shell. If you need any filters in xprofile to make it possible for such a
 plugin to work with 1.6, please don't hesitate to ask.

 If I get a chance myself, I can start repatching in accordance with these
 notes, though I'm pretty booked for the very near future.

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