Hi Jean. I might not have been clear about the issue. There is already an XWikiAllGroup page per wiki. The proposal is about creating a new group called XWikiMemberGroup that can contains global users (because XWikiAllGroup can not in some cases).
2014/1/21 Jean SIMARD <[email protected]> > Hi Guillaume, > > I'm not sure that it's a good idea to manage all local users in a same > group given the fact that you may have different subwikis: you will > loose information about these members (you know they are locals but you > don't know from which subwiki). Why not using a XWiki.XWikiAllGroup > page in each subwiki (only when there is local_user in userScope)? Just > an idea, maybe I don't understand all the implications. > > Sincerely, > -- > Jean > > > On mar., 2014-01-21 at 17:31 +0100, Guillaume "Louis-Marie" Delhumeau > wrote: > > Hi developers! > > > > In Workspaces, we used to add global users in the XWikiAllGroup page of a > > subwiki to indicate that they are members of that wiki. > > > > Now, we have an option called "user scope", and we can have both global & > > local users in a subwiki. That means we have global & local users in > > XWikiAllGroup. > > > > Then, it is a problem because it can not work when XWikiAllGroup is a > > virtual group [1]. > > > > Then, I have proposed to create a new group, called XWikiMemberGroup, > that > > hold the members of the subwiki. (Note: XWikiAllGroup will be a member of > > XWikiMemberGroup, in order to say "a local user is a member"). > > > > So, I have written a migration (again!) [2], to create the new group with > > the current content of XWikiAllGroup. In this migration, I also changes > all > > existing rights that occur on XWikiAllGroup to make them effective for > > XWikiMemberGroup. I did not want to duplicate these rights by just adding > > the sames for XWikiMemberGroup. I think it is easier for the user to only > > take care of the XWikiMemberGroup. But it looks a bit "magical", and some > > people don't like it. > > > > I would like to have your opinion. > > > > +1 for adding XWikiMemberGroup and to "migrate" rights (replace all > rights > > given to XWikiAllGroup by rights given to XWikiMemberGroup). > > > > Thanks, > > Louis-Marie > > > > > > [1] http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-9886 - Enabling virtual > > XWikiAllGroup breaks wiki membership > > [2] https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/compare/feature-wiki-members- > > Git branch for this proposal > > _______________________________________________ > > devs mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
