On Dec 14, 2011, at 10:06 PM, Eduard Moraru wrote: > Hi devs, > > Right now, when you create a wiki template from a xar, the import that is > done in the background is a backup import, meaning that the last author of > the pages that get imported in the new wiki keep the author specified by > the xar. This often creates problems like: > - Missing Programming Rights > - Unregistered macros > - Malfunctioning scripts > > These problems can appear because the user specified in the xar (even if it > is XWiki.Admin) is almost always a local user and subwiki local users do > not have PR. > If it's not a PR issue, then the user specified in the xar can be > non-existent and this makes admin checks fail, thus failing wiki macro > registration for the entire subwiki. > > We are currently experiencing this problem in Workspaces, since, at the > install step, we create a workspace template by using a > workspace-template.xar (default XE but can also be user provided). Since we > make sure to delete any local users (including XWiki.Admin), the Wiki > macros will not be registered in the template and, obviously, neither in > any created workspace. > > I`m hoping to include this in 3.3 final so that Workspaces can avoid the > macro registration problems (and possibly others). > > So I`m asking for your vote to change the current default to non-backup. > This means that all the pages in the new subwiki template will have the > current admin user that created the template as last author.
Are you planning to change this behavior in the wiki manager module API or just for Workspaces? If it's about changing the wiki manager API then it's too late for 3.3. Thanks -Vincent > Here's my +1. > > Thanks, > Eduard _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
