I’ll get Mark to update that, thanks

It’s not clear to me what ‘kind’ of people these are? Are they asking you questions about building a Drupal site? or are they users on your site wanting to access and/or switch off some functionality that may or may not exist?

(if the latter, it strikes me that a lot of these things should perhaps exist on a Profile page, no?)

With filter permissions and Matt’s Module Permissions page can be improved a lot in an unobtrusive way. I think there is also a core patch pending (or already in?) to add a search field to permissions page.

Is there also a core patch to get in filter permissions?

The last one is so very common.

When you add a lot of modules and roles then yes it does get complicated – but then you’re building/administering a complex site by that point anyway.

Grouping permissions by task, being able to separate permissions by module, stuff like that are all potentially useful enhancements – but this isn’t a critical issue and there are already patches around for it. Similarly basic user management didn’t cause many issues for usability testees either.

One thing with users vs. people – we currently don’t have a great way to deal with site visitors (i.e. users without an account) – in fact they’re called anonymous users. There’s some moves to get the concept of ‘visitors’ at a higher level (i.e. this comment and my previous one would both be associated to the ‘catch’ visitor, who might decide to register later and could have their previous comments associated with their new account, stuff like that) – so an overall ‘people’ then division between visitors and users might be useful for that. Replacing users altogether with people I’m less sure about – then what are visitors? un-people?