[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #10201: Switch roles to use single role, and no user-specific caps

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#10201: Switch roles to use single role, and no user-specific caps
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 Reporter:  Denis-de-Bernardy  |       Owner:          
     Type:  task (blessed)     |      Status:  assigned
 Priority:  normal             |   Milestone:  3.1     
Component:  Role/Capability    |     Version:  2.8     
 Severity:  normal             |    Keywords:  early   
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Changes (by earthman100):

 * cc: earthman100 (added)


Comment:

 Out of all the options I see here, it would seem to me that allowing
 duplicate user-meta keys, and implementing this the way apljdi has
 suggested would make the most sense.

 It would reduce the overall load times, create ease of searching for caps,
 and would still allow full functionality of assigning multiple roles and
 caps to users, and multiple caps to roles.  It seems to me that it would
 require much less changes to core, and to plugins, to accomodate this.

 I've attached a diagram that simplifies the way I see the difference
 between the 'old' and proposed way.

 Just my two sense, as an active WP developer - Hope this helps!

 [[Image(http://earthman.ca/images/rolescaps1.jpg)]]

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