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diff --git a/doc/plugins/write/discussion.mdwn b/doc/plugins/write/discussion.mdwn index c8d4ebb14..039775b79 100644 --- a/doc/plugins/write/discussion.mdwn +++ b/doc/plugins/write/discussion.mdwn @@ -20,3 +20,23 @@ there that isn't backed by the RCS and that will break IkiWiki's great abilities distributed wiki. [[Will]] + +> Well, if you look at state that already persists across rebuilds, we have +> pagectime, which can be extracted from RCS only very slowly in many +> cases. There's also the separate state stored by the aggregate plugin, +> which is indeed independant of the RCS, and can in some cases not be +> replecated by rebuilding a different checkout (if the data is gone from +> the feeds). Then there's the session cookie database, and the user +> database, which started out with a lot of local state, has been +> whittled down by removing admin prefs and subscriptions, but still has +> important state including password hashes. +> +> So while I take your point about the potential for abuse, +> there's certianly legitimate reasons to need to store data across +> rebuilds. And plugins have always been able to drop their own files in +> wikistatedir as aggregate does and have it persist, so the abuse +> potential has always been there, the barrier has been lowered only +> slightly. +> +> OTOH, if something can be added to the documentation that encourages +> good behavior, that'd be a good thing ... --[[Joey]] |