could find nothing inside this subforum regarding roles so here goes my proposal:

include roles, i.e. I could give a user a role to manage forums and create new forums or create new groups.

what do you think? useful feature or not? 

I saw a nice implementation inside nextgen gallery: http://alexrabe.boelinger.com/?page_id=80

baasically it comes with a bunch of roles all preset to admin. if you want to grant access to someone to a certai naprt of the gallery, you can modify i.e. from admin to editor so editors have access to i.e. creation of forums.

or assign the roles manually to a certain user using the role manager plugin if you don’t want i.e. al editors to have access only a certain one. 

Roles don’t have to have a knock on effect across your whole system. New roles can be defined that are very specific.

Nevermind I just need to alter the sf_user_allowed function to the following

{
global $user_ID;

get_currentuserinfo();

if(($itemrole == ‘public’) || (empty($itemrole))) return true;

// if not a logged in user disallow
if(” == $user_ID) return false;

// Get level of item ($itemrole)
$itemlevel = sf_get_level($itemrole);

// Get level of users role
$userrole=sf_get_user_role($user_ID);
$userlevel = sf_get_level($userrole);

if($userlevel >= $itemlevel)
{
if($userlevel == $itemlevel)
{
if($userrole == $itemrole)
{
return true;
} else {
return false;
}
} else {
return true;
}
} else {
return false;
}
}

maybe you could add this to your next version

now i just need group specific moderators