On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 5:50 PM, Thomas Mortagne
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Four +1 and nobody against it. Done.
>
> Between that, the new security system by default and the current state
> of http://ci.xwiki.org looks like I will enjoy being the release
> manager of 4.0.x :D

Meant 5.0.x of course (even if I was release manager for 4.0.x) ;)

>
> On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 6:13 PM, Thomas Mortagne
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi devs,
>>
>> Following http://markmail.org/message/snnlesexie4ox3i5 I would like to
>> modify user related methods in XWikiDocument to behave like the what
>> has been voted for XWikiContext and follow the same logic.
>>
>> As a reminder here it is: not logged in user (guest) reference is
>> null. Plain and simple.
>>
>> The idea would be to do exactly the same thing than XWikiContext
>> meaning that old String APIs continue to deal with "XWikiGuest" and do
>> convertions for retro compatibility especially with existing
>> databases.
>>
>> It will change the behavior of XWikiDocument#getUserReference() from
>> external point of view so it's a breakage but we might actually fix
>> more bugs than we create when thinking about codes like
>> context.setUserRefererence(document.getAuthorReference()) or
>> $context.userReference == $doc.authorReference which I'm sure we can
>> find here and there.
>>
>> 5.0 and new right service is a good occasion for this improvement.
>>
>> WDYT ?
>>
>> Here is my +1
>> --
>> Thomas Mortagne
>
>
>
> --
> Thomas Mortagne



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