From ac8e8f5ad7387a815cb0eb1b0a662694c86f2439 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: intrigeri Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2008 18:55:05 -0400 Subject: one more opinion --- doc/todo/clear_page_to_delete.mdwn | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) (limited to 'doc/todo') diff --git a/doc/todo/clear_page_to_delete.mdwn b/doc/todo/clear_page_to_delete.mdwn index 1a0d3f008..eddce79b4 100644 --- a/doc/todo/clear_page_to_delete.mdwn +++ b/doc/todo/clear_page_to_delete.mdwn @@ -14,3 +14,7 @@ question is really: Re vandalism in general, I am generally happy using git-revert to kill the offending change. --[[Joey]] + +I don't think we need a second way to delete pages, which would probably be +used by the only few people who will learn it's possible by random +documentation reading, find it useful, *and* remember it. -- [[intrigeri]] -- cgit v1.2.3 From 214d73775f6595cd65b24922926dfd6aa7b30253 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: intrigeri Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2008 19:19:24 -0400 Subject: initial wishlist submission --- doc/todo/httpauth_feature_parity_with_passwordauth.mdwn | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/todo/httpauth_feature_parity_with_passwordauth.mdwn (limited to 'doc/todo') diff --git a/doc/todo/httpauth_feature_parity_with_passwordauth.mdwn b/doc/todo/httpauth_feature_parity_with_passwordauth.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..8a338ece1 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/todo/httpauth_feature_parity_with_passwordauth.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +The only way to have a private ikiwiki, with a shared user database for static pages and CGI authentication, is to use [[plugins/httpauth]]. It would be good for httpauth to be on par with [[plugins/passwordauth]], +i.e. to allow registering users, resetting passwords, and changing passwords; supporting some kind of +`account_creation_password` configuration option would be nice, too. + +I'll probably propose patches implementing this at some point. +I've not had a single look at the code yet, but it may be nice to factorize +the relevant passwordauth code, instead of rewriting it completely in httpauth. + +-- [[intrigeri]] + +[[wishlist]] -- cgit v1.2.3 From 4a958e0c1e1d3f49c665c5d4aa89214ecbd61bdd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: tschwinge Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 04:58:04 -0400 Subject: My thoughts. --- doc/todo/clear_page_to_delete.mdwn | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) (limited to 'doc/todo') diff --git a/doc/todo/clear_page_to_delete.mdwn b/doc/todo/clear_page_to_delete.mdwn index eddce79b4..ccb7634e5 100644 --- a/doc/todo/clear_page_to_delete.mdwn +++ b/doc/todo/clear_page_to_delete.mdwn @@ -18,3 +18,9 @@ offending change. --[[Joey]] I don't think we need a second way to delete pages, which would probably be used by the only few people who will learn it's possible by random documentation reading, find it useful, *and* remember it. -- [[intrigeri]] + +On the other hand, clearing the page's whole content essentially means deleting +the page. That's what the user intended to do in this case. The information +content of an empty vs. a deleted page is essentially the same, I'd say. But +having ikiwiki remove those stale pages would save some (minimal, admittedly) +time needed for manual clean-up. --[[tschwinge]] -- cgit v1.2.3