Did you check that a virtual XWikiAllGroup correctly propagates to
automatic membership in the XWikiMembersGroup?

On 01/21/2014 12:06 PM, Guillaume "Louis-Marie" Delhumeau wrote:
> Just to add some precisions:
> 
> = What the migrator do =
> 1. Create a group XWikiMemberGroup, with XWikiAllGroup as the first member.
> 2. All global users of XWikiAllGroup are put inside XWikiMemberGroup and
> removed from XWikiAllGroup.
> 3. All rights concerning XWikiAllGroup are changed (ex: "view for
> XWikiAllGroup" -> "view for XWikiMemberGroup"). It does not break anything
> since XWikiAllGroup is a member of XWikiMemberGroup.
> 4. All candidacies (ie: join requests, etc...) are moved form XWikiAllGroup
> to XWikiMemberGroup, to be consistent.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 2014/1/21 Guillaume "Louis-Marie" Delhumeau <[email protected]>
> 
>> Sergiu:
>> Exactly, I don't have to have all global users in the this group. Only
>> those who are considered as "members" (ie: they have joined the wiki).
>>
>>
>> 2014/1/21 Sergiu Dumitriu <[email protected]>
>>
>>> Why not make virtual XWikiAllGroup also contain global users?
>>>
>>> We can make:
>>>
>>> xwiki.authentication.group.allgroupimplicit=0 -> no
>>> xwiki.authentication.group.allgroupimplicit=1 -> yes, all local users
>>> xwiki.authentication.group.allgroupimplicit=2 -> yes, local and global
>>>
>>> Or do you want to have only some global users, not all of them?
>>>
>>> On 01/21/2014 11:31 AM, 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


-- 
Sergiu Dumitriu
http://purl.org/net/sergiu
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