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Permit a region to be the delegate of more than one other region #229

Open jim-mcgowan opened 4 years ago

jim-mcgowan commented 4 years ago

Currently, a region (Chapter) can be the delegate of another region. So, if Region A is a delegate of Region B, Region B can see and edit the incident reports of Region A. This can be configured in the Chapter settings under Incidents delegate chapter:

Incidents delegate chapter In the example above, the Dakotas Region (Chapter ID = 11) is a delegate of the Chicago & Northern Illinois Region (CID = 2).

This issue requests that more than one region be permitted to edit another's incident reports. Thus, if Chicago and Northern Illinois Region AND the Minnesota Region (CID = 10) want to edit Dakotas Region incident reports, Incidents delegate chapter might read: 2, 10

kfogel commented 4 years ago

This makes sense to me, and I see no reason why it can't be done.

We should probably change the language on that page to make the directionality clearer, though. Instead of "Incidents delegate chapter", maybe it should say "Allow incident delegation from region(s):" or something like that.

(Yes, I also changed "chapter" to "region" in that proposal, because of The Big 185 of course.)

A terminology question / concern:

I guess there are a couple of ways to interpret "delegate" and "delegation"? In the way I'm used to, if Region A is a delegate of Region B, that would mean that Region B can "hand off" reports to Region A for A to handle -- i.e., B can "delegate" them "to" A, and thus A is a "delegate of" B. However, in the usage you give above, "A is a delegate of B" means instead something like "B can take over from A in handling A's incidents", which is the opposite of what I would normally understand it to mean.

So maybe a different wording entirely is in order here, e.g.:

"Other regions that can handle incidents for this region:"

or something like that.

jim-mcgowan commented 4 years ago

Being a delegate simply means that you (the delegate) can create and edit another Region's incident reports (you have been delegated these privileges). This is becoming less important as we get closer to the actual realignment. If this effort takes any more than an hour, I would skip it.

I realize I'm probably using the term 'privileges' inappropriately.