T231930: Introduce Authority objects to represent the user performing a given action

Phabricator Link	T231930
Status	open
Priority	Medium (orange)
Points
Phabricator Task Created	2019/09/03 02:52 PM
Wiki Page Created	2019/09/03 03:40 PM
Phabricator Task Last Modified	2021/07/13 11:15 AM
Wiki Page Last Updated	2021/07/13 12:58 PM
Phabricator Task Closed
Authored By	daniel (Daniel Kinzler)
Assigned To
Projects	Epic MediaWiki-User-management (Other) Platform Team Initiatives (Decoupling (CDP2)) (Backlog) Platform Team Workboards (MW Expedition) (Doing) User-Daniel (Inbox)
Platform Engineering Initiative Column
Platform Team Workboards Column	MW Expedition: Doing
Subtasks	T261963: Spike to explore Authority concept, implementation, and migration (resolved) T271466: Authority and JSON serialization (open) T271465: Use Authority in EditPage (duplicate) T271463: Refactor PermissionManager into Authority [hard] (open) T271462: Experiment with converting action API modules to Authority (resolved) T271460: Authority should be available via IContextSource (resolved) T271494: Expose information about user blocks via Authority and PermissionStatus (resolved) T271504: PermissionsError should be instantiatable with PermissionStatus returned by Authority (resolved) T271837: Convert PreferencesFactory to Authority [hard] (open) T271975: Convert EditPage to Authority (open) T272039: Convert BlockPermissionChecker and BlockPermissionCheckerFactory to use Authority (resolved) T272519: Implement private wiki read permission in a way that works with Authority (open) T274947: Rename Authority::getActor to Authority::getPerformer (resolved) T275504: Convert MovePage to Authority (resolved) T275508: Convert ApiCheckCanExecute hook to Authority (open) T275507: Convert ChangeTags to Authority (resolved) T275768: Mark Authority as stable (resolved)
Parent Tasks	T218674: User::getRights() applies session rights restrictions to non-session users

Column Transitions: (Added project: ⇑, Removed project: ⇓,Entered column: ⇒, Exited column: ⇐)

Project	Column	Date
⇑ MediaWiki-User-management		3 September 2019
⇑ Platform Team Initiatives (Decoupling (CDP2))		3 September 2019
MediaWiki-User-management	⇐ Backlog	12 September 2019
MediaWiki-User-management	⇒ Other	12 September 2019
⇑ User-Daniel		21 January 2020
⇑ Platform Team Workboards (Initiatives)		17 March 2020
Platform Team Workboards (Initiatives)	⇐ Later	17 March 2020
Platform Team Workboards (Initiatives)	⇒ Next	17 March 2020
Platform Team Initiatives	⇐ Decoupling (CDP2)	19 March 2020
Platform Team Initiatives	⇒ Decoupling (CDP2)	19 March 2020
⇑ Patch-For-Review		23 March 2020
Platform Team Workboards (Initiatives)	⇐ Next	24 March 2020
Platform Team Workboards (Initiatives)	⇒ Later	24 March 2020
⇓ Platform Team Workboards (Initiatives)		24 March 2020
⇓ Platform Team Initiatives (Decoupling (CDP2))		24 March 2020
⇑ Platform Team Initiatives (Decoupling (CDP2))		24 March 2020
⇑ Platform Team Workboards (MW Expedition)		6 January 2021
Platform Team Workboards (MW Expedition)	⇐ Unsorted pile	6 January 2021
Platform Team Workboards (MW Expedition)	⇒ Authority pile	6 January 2021
⇑ Epic		19 January 2021
Platform Team Workboards (MW Expedition)	⇐ Authority pile	19 January 2021
Platform Team Workboards (MW Expedition)	⇒ Authority pile	19 January 2021
⇑ tech-decision-forum		26 January 2021
⇓ Patch-For-Review		26 January 2021
tech-decision-forum	⇐ Inbox	9 February 2021
tech-decision-forum	⇒ Research and Prototyping	9 February 2021
tech-decision-forum	⇐ Research and Prototyping	16 February 2021
tech-decision-forum	⇒ Decision Record Review	16 February 2021
Platform Team Workboards (MW Expedition)	⇐ Authority pile	9 March 2021
Platform Team Workboards (MW Expedition)	⇒ Doing	9 March 2021
⇓ tech-decision-forum		18 March 2021