+1 I would like to not have pages since 2005 anymore, hope everything else
will be ok
Thanks,
Caty
On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 9:11 PM Clément Aubin <aubincleme(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
+1 for enabled by default while being skippable if needed.
Thanks,
Clément
On 07/31/2018 06:52 PM, Thomas Mortagne wrote:
+1
On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 6:47 PM, Adel Atallah <adel.atallah(a)xwiki.com>
wrote:
> +1 enabled by default, obviously.
>
> Le mar. 31 juil. 2018 18:43, Eduard Moraru <enygma2002(a)gmail.com> a
écrit :
> Hi, devs.
>
> We have had 2 previous discussions on this topic:
> * July 2016 (discussion):
https://markmail.org/thread/oodciq7pv6pj7eic
> * Jan 2018 (proposal):
https://markmail.org/thread/ymwsebvr3k7voy3p
>
> And we have at least 2 issues on this topic:
> * Oct 2011: XWIKI-7058 <http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-7058>: Page
> creation date should be the date of the installation
> * Feb 2015: XCOMMONS-1447 <https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XCOMMONS-1447
:
>> XAR plugin should replace the dates with a common number
>>
>> TL;DR: It's causing confusion for our users to install pages that are
>> created in 2005/2009/etc. so we should avoid committing dates on git
that
>> users might end up installing.
>>
>> Reminder: Importing a document with empty dates will:
>> * Use the current date if the document is new (i.e. does not exist in
the
>> wiki)
>> * Use the existing dates if the document already exists in the wiki, if
>> using backup import
>> * Use the current user and current date for the document update date,
if
>> imported using non-backup import of EM
extension install
>>
>> Adel and myself have extended the xar:verify and xar:format goals of
the
>> xar plugin to check for the existence of
date fields in the XML wiki
pages
>> and to remove them. The fields are:
>> * date
>> * contentUpdateDate
>> * creationDate
>> * attachment/date
>>
>> See the PR
https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-commons/pull/44/
>>
>> This check (on both verify and format goals) is skippable entirely
with
the
>> "xar.dates.skip property"
(default to false) or
>> "xar.dates.skip.documentList" for individual documents (list of doc
>> references).
>>
>> I need your vote for accepting the existing PR and for removing the
>> document dates (e.g.
https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/pull/792)
and
>> your feedback in case you know of any
problems that this might create.
>>
>> Also, please mention if you would prefer for this behavior to be
skipped
by
>> default (and explicitly enabled on XWiki
Standard, so that 3rd party
code
> is
not impacted by this change).
>
> Here's my +1 (enabled by default and skippable if needed).
>
> Thanks,
> Eduard
>