On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 10:48 AM, Marius Dumitru Florea < [email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > Well, for sure, this could happen. What annoy me more, is the fact that when I publish an extension with a macro set to Global, I have no way to prevent it to be installed in subwikis, and shot myself in the foot. And mostly the diagnosis is a big issue, since you have no easy way to find why your nice macro on the main wiki is not working as expected in your own wiki, or a subwiki you manage, because another subwiki is killing you. > > > > * 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. > It should be a global user, else no PR, but it could be “sementically” a power user in a that usually only work in a given subwiki. > 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 > You perfectly get my point, thanks for your vote :) > > 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 > -- Denis Gervalle SOFTEC sa - CEO _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
