On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 7:43 PM, Thomas Mortagne <thomas.morta...@xwiki.com>wrote:
> DW always been based on the user who execute it except for a special > use case which is guest user. > Couldn't we use that special use case more largely to allow admins without PR to upgrade the UI through the DW ? Only the UI of course, not the extensions, this would be probably too risky. WDYT ? > > On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 11:36 AM, vinc...@massol.net <vinc...@massol.net> > wrote: > > > > Actually I'll try to test this today locally to see if I can reproduce. > > > > Thanks > > -Vincent > > > > > > On 3 Feb 2014 at 11:26:53, vinc...@massol.net (vinc...@massol.net > (mailto:vinc...@massol.net)) wrote: > > > >> > >> > >> On 3 Feb 2014 at 11:16:15, Denis Gervalle (d...@softec.lu(mailto: > d...@softec.lu)) wrote: > >> > >> > On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 10:56 AM, 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 ? > >> > >> I hope I'm wrong :) I've based my mail on what I saw on a subwiki I own > on myxwiki.org which I had upgraded using a local users and where I saw > that all features that were requiring PR were broken. Now myxwiki.org is > on 5.2 so this was the DW of 5.2. Maybe we fixed/changed something after > that. > >> > >> Would be interesting to retest if someone has a subwiki on myxwiki.orgthat > >> has not been migrated. > >> > >> I guess we could also upgrade myxwiki.org to 5.4RC1 and retest it and > at the same time try to find issues that could be fixed either quickly for > 5.4 final or for 5.4.1. I wanted to wait for 5.4 final before upgrading > myxwiki.org but if we think this issue shouldn't exist we might want to > upgrade sooner. > >> > >> Thanks > >> -Vincent > >> > >> > > 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 > > > > -- > Thomas Mortagne > _______________________________________________ > 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
