OK, just please clarify this issue for me: Under whichever technical approach that's adopted, will JSPWiki users always be able to clearly see which other users previously edited a page (and not be potentially misled by interim changes in these other users' names)?
On Sat, 2008-08-23 at 16:19 +0300, Janne Jalkanen wrote: > > I'm aware that JSPWiki doesn't perform any operations (that I'm aware > > of) on the authoring history. But I think that reduces the value > > of the > > wiki (if users can't - definitively - learn who the previous > > editors of > > a page are). Maybe I'm missing something, but you indicate that > > "[h]umans .. will of course care" - but isn't that a pretty important > > consideration? > > Absolutely! > > But I was purely talking from the technical point of view. And, that > means that there is no inherent technical advantage in storing the ID > of the user identity vs. storing the username itself into the repo > for the purposes of viewing the history of a page (in fact, there is > a tiny performance penalty for doing that). Also, storing the ID > means that we cannot ever truly remove an user account either, since > losing it means that we lose the mapping metadata from an abstract ID > to a real name (unless that person has never changed a page, which in > turn means that removal is a nasty op where you have to check every > version of every single page to be able to determine whether it can > be removed). > > /Janne
