On Mar 24, 2013, at 6:21 PM, Thomas Mortagne <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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) ;)

:)

Speaking of which, today is release day for 5.0M2…

Thanks
-Vincent

>> 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
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