Fully customizable groups privileges

Allowing multiple groups to have moderator powers is planned for 1.3
However, I don't think you'll see the moderator powers being broken down into pieces that you can allow/disallow per group, at least not in the core: maybe an extension.

And as for hiding posts, I'm pretty sure that would be an extension as well, although I believe 1.3 will allow you to have a moderation queue for posts and topics

i still think stuff like this should not be in the code:

if (!$pun_user['is_guest'])
// do stuff
else
//dos omething else

even stuff like this should be handeled by some sort off privil engine/class

well, here a guest user is handeled diferent then a regular user and this is hardcoded into the engine.

i think it would be better/nicer/easyer if this wans't hardcoded,

this way you could define every function in the system with an acces sprivilege, so its more customizable.

yeah, true

its just an idea
and  i think it would be cool

This seems like a common sense addition.  The forums that just have a simple admin/moderator/member structure seem to be in the minority to me.

I would agree, but it's not so much as an extra feature as a replacement for the feature as it is now.  I understand why PunBB is light on features, but I don't think that's really the issue in this particular case.  If anything this feature could be used to reduce bloat by merging the "Permissions" and "User Groups" sections together, which at the same time would make the board much more flexible.  But I guess it's ultimately up to Rickard.

How do you know there will be any excess code?  The fact it would be more flexible wasn't meant to negate the bloat argument, it was an added advantage.  You're looking at this from a different angle, which is fair enough, but to me having the two seperate features seems redundant when they could be merged, and don't think this equates to "removing smaller features and adding a giant feature" either, but as I'm not Rickard, I obviously wouldn't know for certain.

Just to clarify, the sort of of feature I'm trying to describe wouldn't make things any more complex unless the administrator wishes to.  You can still have the admin/moderator/member groups set up as they are now in the default installation; the difference is that the administrator will have the option to remove/add/modify the groups (which is why the permissions would be merged into the user groups section obviously).  This seems like a cleaner and more streamlined way of managing these features to me.  I'm not sure if this would make sense as an extension seeing as it's more like a complete replacement of how PunBB currently works, rather than just adding an additional feature.

Yeah, you'd add/delete/edit as usual basically, except the options from the permissions section would also be available in the group settings, thus negating the need to have them under a seperate heading.  And there's no need to be curt; unless you've been working on the code yourself (in which case, fair enough) your opinion on whether on not this is going to add bloat is no more valid than mine.  Like I said, I don't work on PunBB so I can't make that kind of call, only Rickard, Paul, et al. can.

Oh, that's what you want?
Aside from the fact that several of the permissions make sense only for specific groups (ie: the guest email one, the registration ones, etc) and the moderator features (which may/may not become part of the group system once you can have multiple moderator groups), the other permissions seem to have to do with the use of BBCode, caps, and signature length. In other words, at least IMO the features would be excessive: an administrator shouldn't need a larger sig, and if you want to reward your users by allowing them BBCode, longer sigs, etc in a certain usergroup, then you can write a mod for it
And as Paul said, I am quite familiar with the code: sorry if I seemed curt though, I really just wanted to know specifically what it was you wanted to add