[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #64306: Enhancements: Add 'designer' user role, Collaborator groups/teams, display multiple contributor types and co-authors, contributor heirarchy on posts/pages

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#64306: Enhancements: Add 'designer' user role, Collaborator groups/teams, display
multiple contributor types and co-authors, contributor heirarchy on
posts/pages
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 Reporter:  amykamala        |       Owner:  (none)
     Type:  enhancement      |      Status:  new
 Priority:  low              |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Role/Capability  |     Version:
 Severity:  trivial          |  Resolution:
 Keywords:                   |     Focuses:
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Comment (by johnbillion):

 I'd like to see support for multiple authors too but it's a surprisingly
 complex consideration. I built [https://github.com/humanmade/authorship
 the Authorship plugin] to facilitate a performant way of applying multiple
 authors to a post while correctly retaining their capabilities with regard
 to the post. Its design decisions are documented in the repo and its
 issues.

 The underlying relationship between a post and an author is done via a
 taxonomy. This results in efficient author queries and facilitates
 different "types" of author -- author, co-author, collaborator -- as you
 mentioned. The main problem is retaining support for the `post_author`
 field and deciding exactly what that represents.

 I've not come across a multi-author solution that places users into groups
 and then sets that group (which is actually also a row in the `users`
 table) as the post author, but it could have potential and could make
 back-compat with `post_author` easier.

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