Moderators don't have access to Staff category

david · October 5, 2018, 10:14pm

Yes, it looks like we localise the group names here:

app/models/group.rb

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            group.id = id
            group.save!
          end
          
          # don't allow shoddy localization to break this
          localized_name = I18n.t("groups.default_names.#{name}").downcase
          validator = UsernameValidator.new(localized_name)
          
          if !Group.where("LOWER(name) = ?", localized_name).exists? && validator.valid_format?
            group.name = localized_name
          end
          
          # the everyone group is special, it can include non-users so there is no
          # way to have the membership in a table
          case name
          when :everyone
            group.visibility_level = Group.visibility_levels[:owners]
            group.save!
            return group
          when :moderators

But then set category permissions using the unlocalised group name here:

github.com/discourse/discourse

db/fixtures/502_staff_category.rb

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          unless Rails.env.test?
            staff = Category.find_by(id: SiteSetting.staff_category_id)
            if staff && !staff.group_ids.include?(Group[:staff].id)
          
              # Add permissions and a description to the Staff category.
          
              Category.transaction do
                staff.group_names = ['staff']
                unless staff.save
                  puts staff.errors.full_messages
                  raise "Failed to set permissions on the Staff category!"
                end
          
                if staff.topic_id.nil?
                  creator = PostCreator.new(Discourse.system_user,
                    raw: I18n.t('staff_category_description'),
                    title: I18n.t('category.topic_prefix', category: staff.name),
                    category: staff.name,

I think this could do with some improvement

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