Re: [xwiki-devs] [Proposal] Enable space rights inheritance as default setting

Agreed with Artem, it should be more than 1 by default. On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 2:19 PM, Artem Melentyev <amelentev(a)gmail.com> wrote: > +1 for 1) > > But why =1? Is it sufficient for all? > If I understand correctly, the purpose of this option is to prevent cycling. > So I'd set this option to ~10 and forget of its existence. :) > Is any drawbacks of this? > > Jerome Velociter wrote: >> Dear devs, >> >> Since XWiki 1.2, a rights inheritance mechanism is available in XWiki >> that allows to make a wiki space have the exact same rights (inherited) >> as it's parent space, defined as a WebPreferences ("parent" property of >> the XWiki.XWikiPreferences object). This mechanism has to be activated >> adding "xwiki.rights.maxrecursivespacechecks=1" to xwiki.cfg >> >> I propose we enable this as a default setting. This is very usefull when >> developing applications in XWiki for example (example: to have MyAppCode >> inherit XWiki). >> >> I see two ways of doing it : >> >> 1) We make "1" being default returned value in the java code when the >> property is not defined in xwiki.cfg, and document the use of >> xwiki.rights.maxrecursivespacechecks to disable the mechanism, or to >> allow more levels of inheritance (2, 3, etc.) >> 2) We add xwiki.rights.maxrecursivespacechecks=1 to xwiki.cfg >> >> >> I prefer way 1) and am +1 for it >>