Roles on groups.drupal.org

Last updated on
7 October 2020

This is a list of the user roles on the groups.drupal.org web site, and their permissions.

If you would like to become a site editor or site administrator, create an issue in the groups.drupal.org project and request permission.

Anonymous users

  • View content, search content

Authenticated users

  • Do everything anonymous users can, plus:
  • Join groups
  • Post comments on nodes with commenting enabled
  • Subscribe to content or users
  • Vote on and post in polls
  • Create content in any group of which they are a member -- discussions, wikis, events, polls

Group organizers

  • Do everything authenticated users can, plus:
  • Alter the group description and home page
  • Add subsidiary pages to their group
  • Edit all content posted in their group
  • Add and remove other organizers
  • Send plaintext email to everyone in their group using the "Broadcast" tab
  • Create taxonomy vocabularies within their group

groups.drupal.org site editors

  • Do everything group organizers can, plus:
  • Moderate, approve and deny groups in moderation queue
  • Delete nodes and comments posted in groups
  • Revert revisions on nodes
  • Edit or delete vocabularies in groups (group organizers cannot)
  • Edit or delete vocabulary terms in groups (group organizers cannot)
  • Promote high-quality content to the g.d.o home page (via fasttoggle)

groups.drupal.org site administrators

  • Do everything groups.drupal.org site editors can, plus:
  • Create redirects from common guesses for group names to the actual group (e.g. nyc for new-york-city)
  • Alter everything on the g.d.o site

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