On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 11:08 AM, Denis Gervalle <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi devs, > > It looks like a bug to me, but wiki macro defined for global level in a > subwiki, are effectively influencing the whole farm. If the wiki macro is saved by a global user that has PR. > I would like to change > that like this: > > * global level macro are registered global only if defined in the main > wiki > * global and wiki level macro defined in a subwiki are registered at wiki > level > > The rationals are: > > * if the same global macro document is deployed on more than one wiki, > which just means the same extension defining that document is installed on > multiple wiki, maybe in different version, all those macros will be in > conflict, it will not be easy to know which one wins, and even more > difficult to detect the problem in the first place. > This can happen also if two different extensions define a macro with the same name (in two different documents), but I guess this is less probable. > * there is risk (of course limited by the PR), that user of subwiki > influence the behaviors of the whole farm, which IMO is quite opposite to > the logical structure, and even the physical storage we are used to. > What do you mean by "user of subwiki"? It can be a global user. I agree that subwikis should act as namespaces, and normally you expect something defined in an inner namespace to not be visible in the outer namespace. So +1 Thanks, Marius > * I do not see any benefit of putting a global macro in a subwiki > wdyt ? > > -- > Denis Gervalle > SOFTEC sa - CEO > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
