+1 I would like to not have pages since 2005 anymore, hope everything else will be ok
Thanks, Caty On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 9:11 PM Clément Aubin <aubincl...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > +1 for enabled by default while being skippable if needed. > > Thanks, > Clément > > On 07/31/2018 06:52 PM, Thomas Mortagne wrote: > > +1 > > > > On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 6:47 PM, Adel Atallah <adel.atal...@xwiki.com> > wrote: > >> +1 enabled by default, obviously. > >> > >> Le mar. 31 juil. 2018 18:43, Eduard Moraru <enygma2...@gmail.com> a > écrit : > >> > >>> Hi, devs. > >>> > >>> We have had 2 previous discussions on this topic: > >>> * July 2016 (discussion): https://markmail.org/thread/oodciq7pv6pj7eic > >>> * Jan 2018 (proposal): https://markmail.org/thread/ymwsebvr3k7voy3p > >>> > >>> And we have at least 2 issues on this topic: > >>> * Oct 2011: XWIKI-7058 <http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-7058>: Page > >>> creation date should be the date of the installation > >>> * Feb 2015: XCOMMONS-1447 <https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XCOMMONS-1447 > >: > >>> XAR plugin should replace the dates with a common number > >>> > >>> TL;DR: It's causing confusion for our users to install pages that are > >>> created in 2005/2009/etc. so we should avoid committing dates on git > that > >>> users might end up installing. > >>> > >>> Reminder: Importing a document with empty dates will: > >>> * Use the current date if the document is new (i.e. does not exist in > the > >>> wiki) > >>> * Use the existing dates if the document already exists in the wiki, if > >>> using backup import > >>> * Use the current user and current date for the document update date, > if > >>> imported using non-backup import of EM extension install > >>> > >>> Adel and myself have extended the xar:verify and xar:format goals of > the > >>> xar plugin to check for the existence of date fields in the XML wiki > pages > >>> and to remove them. The fields are: > >>> * date > >>> * contentUpdateDate > >>> * creationDate > >>> * attachment/date > >>> > >>> See the PR https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-commons/pull/44/ > >>> > >>> This check (on both verify and format goals) is skippable entirely > with the > >>> "xar.dates.skip property" (default to false) or > >>> "xar.dates.skip.documentList" for individual documents (list of doc > >>> references). > >>> > >>> I need your vote for accepting the existing PR and for removing the > >>> document dates (e.g. https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/pull/792) > and > >>> your feedback in case you know of any problems that this might create. > >>> > >>> Also, please mention if you would prefer for this behavior to be > skipped by > >>> default (and explicitly enabled on XWiki Standard, so that 3rd party > code > >>> is not impacted by this change). > >>> > >>> Here's my +1 (enabled by default and skippable if needed). > >>> > >>> Thanks, > >>> Eduard > >>> > > > > > > >
