On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 10:56 AM, vinc...@massol.net <vinc...@massol.net>wrote:
> Hi guys, > > I’ve just realized that on farm wiki like myxwiki.org we have an > important issue when we upgrade the WAR. > > When local admins log on their wiki they get the DW, they follow it and > then they find their wiki is broken in several places: > - search/search suggest not working > - activity stream stays empty > - reset password feature doesn’t work > - etc > > The problem is that the local admin users do not have PR on subwikis and > since we have several pages requiring them, this breaks their upgrades. > Isn't it a bug ? Shouldn't any user having access to the DW be able to execute it properly, disregarding its own rights ? Is there a recent change that cause the DW to make its operation based on the current user, that was not there before ? I had always thought that the DW will keep package content author in place, like any other meta. Is this wrong ? > > This is a pretty serious problem since they have no way of doing a proper > upgrade and this doesn’t do good advertising for xwiki... > > What can we do in the short term (for 5.4.1 for example since I believe > this is something really urgent to fix)? > > Only solution I can think of (which should be pretty quick) would be to > look at all pages requiring PR in our default XE XAR package and replace > those with specific API calls. > WDYT? > > Thanks > -Vincent > > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > devs@xwiki.org > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > -- Denis Gervalle SOFTEC sa - CEO _______________________________________________ devs mailing list devs@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
