"demo" seems to win. Applied in https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-15277.
On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 9:49 AM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Thomas and all, > >> On 27 Apr 2018, at 15:46, Thomas Mortagne <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi xwikiers, >> >> In 10.3 I introduced a "home" type with Main.WebHome in mind with the >> following defaults: >> * edit allow >> * delete forbidden >> * no upgrade if modified >> >> I tough that deleting the wiki home page was not so great. >> >> Eduard argue that since the wiki home page is configurable there is no >> reason to restrict delete right. >> >> WDYT ? >> >> I feel that most people don't change the configured home page so I'm >> +1 to keep it like this but I'm not strongly against allowing delete >> if others think it's fine since I don't have much experience with >> configured home page use case. > > I was also a bit surprised to see a special “home” page type. > > If the only difference between “demo” and “home” is the ability or not to > delete it, then indeed I’m not sure we need the “home” type. > > For me the only pages that would need to be prevented from being deleted are > pages that, if deleted, will make the wiki bug (ie the wiki cannot work > without them), and, AFAIK we should never have pages that do this (when those > pages don’t exist, they should be automatically recreated when needed). > > Since we support the feature of being able to configure/change the default > wiki home page, we should allow deleting Main.WebHome as a user will be able > to change his wiki home page. > > Now if we want to incitate users to not delete “home” pages, we could protect > them by default (i.e. have some right on them so that only admins can delete > them by default). I think that would be enough for me. > > All that said, and as Caty mentioned, when we delete a page, the children can > be selected too, and a rename will perform a delete. And we might want to > prevent this from happening for Main.WebHome. Most users won’t like the name > “Main” and will want to try renaming it or deleting it so that they can have > their own namespace. IMO the best answer to that is: > * Finishing removing default pages located in the Main space and move them > elsewhere so that users can rename or delete the Main space without it being > a problem at all > * Allow configuring the page not found template when on Main.WebHome so that > if the page is deleted, the admin/user can see a message with a link, > explaining how to change the wiki home page. > > WDYT? > > Thanks > -Vincent > >> >> -- >> Thomas Mortagne > -- Thomas Mortagne
