Hi devs, When dealing with extension pages protection we ended up with a very visible issue: EVERYONE customize the home page so it does not make much sense to warn every user trying to edit it that it's dangerous and might break the extensions.
Since it's not the only use case 10.3 introduce the concept of XAR entry type which allow controlling a bit more edit/delete and upgrade behavior. See http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/XAR+Module+Specifications#Hpackage.xml for more details. On component side it's possible to decide the default type of a page reference (that's where "Main.WebHome" type come from currently). It's also possible to override the upgrade behavior for a specific type or even a specific reference for more exotic use cases. So it's now possible to control the type you want for a page at XAR descriptor level. I already typed a few page, for example "Main.WebHome" is now of type "home" which means "it's OK to edit it and you should only upgrade it if no customization have been made". Cool home page is covered but we now entered a new era of endless debates to decide of what type some page should be and what other types to introduce :) We are not going to discuss all these in this mail so everyone with a doubt should start a discussion for a standard page (or a set of standard page which are obviously very similar like color themes). Currently, protected page produce a warning that you can force. The plan in 10.4 is to keep the warning only for advanced completely prevent basic user to modify protected pages by default and also allow configuring all that (indicate in your profile that you don't want to be bothered with that, override edit/delete right even for advanced users, etc.). But before that we need to make sure basic users are allowed to edit all the pages they are supposed to edit. Happy tuning :) -- Thomas Mortagne
