+1 but we have to make sure that users will be aware of this change.
On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 7:30 AM Vincent Massol <vinc...@massol.net> wrote: > > Hi devs, > > We see more and more wikis with tons of redirects and issues to manage them, > see https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-14570 > > “ > Rationale for turning it off by default: > - Several users have reported a usability issue about automatic redirects. > The way they express it is the following: "I have duplicates pages in my > wiki. I don't understand why this is happening. I'm choosing to rename pages > and not to copy them but I still get duplicates in the Navigation panel". > - Automatic redirects are especially useful for public wikis where users can > have bookmark on pages and you don't want to break them. It can also be > useful for internal wikis but it's less an issue. > - Even for public wikis not all pages need automatic redirects. Technical > pages don't need them for example. > “ > > I’ve had Ludovic report that to me too again this morning. > > Since we’ve been knowing about the problem for a while already and since it’s > very easy to change the default behavior, I’d like to propose that we turn it > off by default in XWiki 10.8 (ie right now, or if you think it’s really too > dangerous in 10.9), and that we implement an option to configure the default > behavior later on (https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-13384). > > WDYT? > > Thanks > -Vincent > >
