21 Sep
2018
21 Sep
'18
4:24 p.m.
It's good that we made this change :) , since there are users that have big
problems with it (as already stated by your examples). It's indeed useful
for Public Website, but the option can still be selected manually.
Thanks,
Caty
On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 2:48 PM Vincent Massol <vincent(a)massol.net> wrote:
So far:
* Vincent: ok
* Adel: ok
* Thomas: ok
* Marius: ok
* Simon: ok
I’ve now done it and documented it in the RN. Next step will be to provide
a config option but not in 10.8 (too late for that).
Thanks
-Vincent
On 20 Sep 2018, at 07:30, Vincent Massol
<vincent(a)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