[WG: Sakai QA] Possible blocker bug with Sakai 10 and groups/sections

[Matthew Jones]

So it looks like this is related to
https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-25312

There was a change here that changed the the check to if the user has
access to the site to if they have access to the "allowAllGroups"
permission.
 if (a.getAccess() == Assignment.AssignmentAccess.SITE) if
(allowAllGroups(contextString))
In a course site by default, students don't have this permission checked by
default, so this blocks them from seeing these grouped assignments.

The *label* on this permission is "Same site level permissions for all
groups inside the site" which seems like it would make sense to give this
to Students and TA's by default OOTB if that's actually what it does but
the comment in the code says.

    /** Security function giving the user permission to all groups, if
granted to at the site level. */

So I'm not sure what this actually does in all cases. In any case it does
look like a regression from SAK-25312 on course sites where students don't
have the asn.all.groups permission assigned.

On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 10:34 AM, Neal Caidin <neal.caidin at apereo.org>
wrote:

> Because to reproduce the problem it requires associating a roster with the
> site, and I cannot seem to do that on 2.9.x nightly.
>
> If you create a site and deploy a group, it works fine. I'm only able to
> reproduce the problem if there is an existing roster association, which
> somehow seems to be messing with the groups.
>
> If I create a site first and then associate a roster, Sakai still doesn't
> let me (just tried right now on 2.9.x). It makes the site that had been
> created, and accessed, suddenly inaccessible to me (as instructor
> role/creator of the site).
>
> I cannot seem to get this to work on 2.9.3 tag running locally either
> (pack-demo).
>
>
>
>    Sam Ottenhoff <ottenhoff at longsight.com>
>  June 17, 2014 at 10:27 AM
> I'm not following.  Why exactly can't it be tested on 2.9.x nightly?
>
>
>
>    Neal Caidin <neal.caidin at apereo.org>
>  June 17, 2014 at 8:12 AM
>  I cannot test this issue on 2.9.x nightly,
> http://nightly2.sakaiproject.org:8087,  because it depends on adding an
> existing roster.
>
> Steps to reproduce:
>
> 1) Log in as account id  "instructor"
> 2) Add new course site for the Spring 2014 academic term
> 3) Choose one of the the existing sections
> 4) create the site
> 5) The site does not show up for the instructor, however it does seem to
> get created, which you can find under the admin login in "Sites"
>
>
> Example site id (good for today only, 2.9.x nightly is refreshed daily):
> ae3d4ef7-7c98-4e7d-ab5e-0a5b17677b33
>
> Cheers,
> Neal
>
>
>    Neal Caidin <neal.caidin at apereo.org>
>  June 16, 2014 at 7:26 PM
> [sakai-dev and sakai-qa]
>
> Hi ,
>
> I have not opened a Jira ticket for this yet.
>
> To reproduce:
>
> 1) Use one of the built in instructor accounts: instructor, instructor2,
> etc
>
> 2) Create a course site using a section from a built-in academic term
>
> 3) Create a group with just a few students from that academic term
>
> 4) Deploy an Assignment or a Test to that group only, not the whole site
>
> 5) Log in as one of the students in the group. You will not see the
> Assignment or the Test
>
> 6) Change the group assignment to the section itself. Then log in as one
> of the students and you will see the deployed assignment.
>
> I think I can reproduce on trunk, sakai 10.x , and RC02 (Longsight
> server).
>
> ?
>
> Thanks,
> Neal
>
>
> --
> Neal Caidin
> Sakai Community Coordinator
> Apereo Foundation
> neal.caidin at apereo.org
> Skype me! (but let me know in advance for the first interaction) - nealkdin
>
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