Members of one group appointing and removing members of another group

[Tris20 (Tristan)]

This would be extremely useful and compliments the Category Moderator functionality nicely. In our use case, we have two groups per Category: Moderators, Members. In an ideal world the Moderators are also the owners of Members. This means that when an admin adds someone to the Moderators Group, they are added to the Members Group as Owners.

I’m not sure if this is the thread you meant @sam? It was the only one I could find with reasonable value towards this Topic.

Group owners should not necessarily be group members

On my site I have a use case for people being given the privilege of managing group membership without being a member of the group themselves. I assumed this is how it worked and was surprised to see that someone I added as group manager is now also a group member. The use case? We use groups to assign badges. And to give access to private categories. And the people responsible for doing this are not always group members. Edit: having noticed this, I then removed some group owners only to real…

Group owners should not necessarily be group members

Sure, I am open to disconnecting the two permissions.

Group owners should not necessarily be group members

Any chance the goal of “group owner does not need to be group member” with stretch goal of “group can be named as owner of another group” would be suitable for a GSoC project?

Group owners should not necessarily be group members

Very unlikely, way too small of a job. Group can be owner of another group is not even something I would be comfortable adding.