Did you check that a virtual XWikiAllGroup correctly propagates to automatic membership in the XWikiMembersGroup? On 01/21/2014 12:06 PM, Guillaume "Louis-Marie" Delhumeau wrote:
Just to add some precisions:
= What the migrator do = 1. Create a group XWikiMemberGroup, with XWikiAllGroup as the first member. 2. All global users of XWikiAllGroup are put inside XWikiMemberGroup and removed from XWikiAllGroup. 3. All rights concerning XWikiAllGroup are changed (ex: "view for XWikiAllGroup" -> "view for XWikiMemberGroup"). It does not break anything since XWikiAllGroup is a member of XWikiMemberGroup. 4. All candidacies (ie: join requests, etc...) are moved form XWikiAllGroup to XWikiMemberGroup, to be consistent.
2014/1/21 Guillaume "Louis-Marie" Delhumeau <[email protected]>
Sergiu: Exactly, I don't have to have all global users in the this group. Only those who are considered as "members" (ie: they have joined the wiki).
2014/1/21 Sergiu Dumitriu <[email protected]>
Why not make virtual XWikiAllGroup also contain global users?
We can make:
xwiki.authentication.group.allgroupimplicit=0 -> no xwiki.authentication.group.allgroupimplicit=1 -> yes, all local users xwiki.authentication.group.allgroupimplicit=2 -> yes, local and global
Or do you want to have only some global users, not all of them?
On 01/21/2014 11:31 AM, Guillaume "Louis-Marie" Delhumeau wrote:
Hi developers!
In Workspaces, we used to add global users in the XWikiAllGroup page of a subwiki to indicate that they are members of that wiki.
Now, we have an option called "user scope", and we can have both global & local users in a subwiki. That means we have global & local users in XWikiAllGroup.
Then, it is a problem because it can not work when XWikiAllGroup is a virtual group [1].
Then, I have proposed to create a new group, called XWikiMemberGroup, that hold the members of the subwiki. (Note: XWikiAllGroup will be a member of XWikiMemberGroup, in order to say "a local user is a member").
So, I have written a migration (again!) [2], to create the new group with the current content of XWikiAllGroup. In this migration, I also changes all existing rights that occur on XWikiAllGroup to make them effective for XWikiMemberGroup. I did not want to duplicate these rights by just adding the sames for XWikiMemberGroup. I think it is easier for the user to only take care of the XWikiMemberGroup. But it looks a bit "magical", and some people don't like it.
I would like to have your opinion.
+1 for adding XWikiMemberGroup and to "migrate" rights (replace all rights given to XWikiAllGroup by rights given to XWikiMemberGroup).
Thanks, Louis-Marie
[1] http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-9886 - Enabling virtual XWikiAllGroup breaks wiki membership [2] https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/compare/feature-wiki-members - Git branch for this proposal
-- Sergiu Dumitriu http://purl.org/net/sergiu