Hi Guillaume, Here's a quick snippet for detecting such cases in your current wiki: http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Case+insensitive+document+name+and+space+collisions
Use it to detect collisions/mistakes and to have a better understanding of the problem. It is also useful to better understand the impact, if any, on your wiki if we were to move to case insensitive only (i.e. see how many pages would present problems and would have to be fixed, either manually or automatically). Thanks, Eduard On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 1:03 PM, Guillaume Lerouge <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Edy, > > thanks for your message. From a forward-looking standpoint, I 100% agree > with you that switching XWiki to case-insensitive would be a good thing to > do. I've seen others (as well as myself) be lost because they were going to > .../xwiki/bin/view/Main/Xyy instead of .../xwiki/bin/view/Main/XYY and > vice-versa. If we were to make the decision today, I can't see a good > reason why not to go case-insensitive, especially when targeting business > users. > > However we're not starting from a blank slate. There might be (I don't know > that there is, but there might be) legitimate use cases for a page named > "Xyy" vs a page named "XYY", both in the same wiki. I'd like to have a > better idea of the consequences of this change, as well an analysis of a > public site such as xwiki.org to see whether this could be causing > unforeseen and other unexpected issues. In other words: what could go > wrong? > > Thanks, > > Guillaume > ᐧ > > On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 11:33 AM, Eduard Moraru <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Hi users and devs, > > > > I would like to have your opinion on the topic of case sensitive vs case > > insensitive and which one you prefer in XWiki. > > > > Currently, XWiki is case sensitive. This means the same resource name > > (document name, space name, etc) can be written with either small letters > > or big letters or a mix. > > > > Examples: You can have both "Main.Test" and "Main.test" as 2 different > > documents. Also, you can have "XWiki.Admin" and "XWiki.admin" as 2 > > different users. This also applies to URLs, as "/Main/Test" is different > > from "/Main/test" or "/main/test", so all these 3 are different > resources. > > > > Even from this short description, one can already identify possible > > problems of this approach. > > > > From the top 3 operating systems (Linux, Mac an Windows), only Linux is > > case sensitive, the other two (more user-focused Operating Systems) are > > both case insensitive. > > > > Since XWiki has one of its main targets the Enterprise users, it is safe > to > > assume that the correct approach would be to also be more user-focused > and > > simplify things and avoid confusions by being case insensitive as well. > > > > Also, a quick search on existing issues validates the need for this > > improvement: > > http://jira.xwiki.org/issues/?jql=text%20~%20%22case%20insensitive%22 > > > > What do you think? Is it OK to keep XWiki case sensitive, or would you > > prefer it case insensitive? Bring arguments. > > > > I have also created a jira issue for this idea: > > http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-11412 to track it in the future. > > > > Thanks, > > Eduard > > _______________________________________________ > > devs mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users > _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
