> On 20 Sep 2018, at 09:54, Adel Atallah <adel.atal...@xwiki.com> wrote:
>
> +1 but we have to make sure that users will be aware of this change.
What do you suggest?
IMO having it in the RN is enough.
Thanks
-Vincent
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 7:30 AM Vincent Massol <vinc...@massol.net> wrote:
>>
>> Hi devs,
>>
>> We see more and more wikis with tons of redirects and issues to manage them,
>> see https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-14570
>>
>> “
>> Rationale for turning it off by default:
>> - Several users have reported a usability issue about automatic redirects.
>> The way they express it is the following: "I have duplicates pages in my
>> wiki. I don't understand why this is happening. I'm choosing to rename pages
>> and not to copy them but I still get duplicates in the Navigation panel".
>> - Automatic redirects are especially useful for public wikis where users can
>> have bookmark on pages and you don't want to break them. It can also be
>> useful for internal wikis but it's less an issue.
>> - Even for public wikis not all pages need automatic redirects. Technical
>> pages don't need them for example.
>> “
>>
>> I’ve had Ludovic report that to me too again this morning.
>>
>> Since we’ve been knowing about the problem for a while already and since
>> it’s very easy to change the default behavior, I’d like to propose that we
>> turn it off by default in XWiki 10.8 (ie right now, or if you think it’s
>> really too dangerous in 10.9), and that we implement an option to configure
>> the default behavior later on (https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-13384).
>>
>> WDYT?
>>
>> Thanks
>> -Vincent
>>
>>
