---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Marius Dumitru Florea <mariusdumitru.florea@xwiki.com> Date: Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 12:32 PM Subject: Re: [xwiki-devs] [Reminder] Using superadmin author for pages not imported at runtime To: "vincent@massol.net" <vincent@massol.net> On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 12:08 PM, vincent@massol.net <vincent@massol.net> wrote:

On 2 Mar 2015 at 10:34:03, Marius Dumitru Florea (mariusdumitru.florea@xwiki.com(mailto:mariusdumitru.florea@xwiki.com)) wrote:

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I had forgotten about this vote. I'm not against using a special 'system' user, but as Denis pointed out, we also have to think about how this will be displayed in the UI (including localization). Until we have this I'm -0.

Don’t forget that we’re already using that for all xclasses initialized by java code.

Those are hidden documents that you rarely get to see. It's still not nice but at least it's not very visible. While this "Installed by superadmin." will be visible whenever you look at the details of a XAR extension installed by default (e.g. the Blog application).

I don’t see why “superadmin” is not a good display name for now (till we introduce another System user).

Will a non-English speaker understand it? And even for those that understand English it's gibberish, a technical identifier. Thanks, Marius

Thanks -Vincent

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Thanks, Marius

On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 11:17 AM, Denis Gervalle wrote:

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Hi Vincent,

Of course, I still agree with the above vote, but I think we should also improve the display of the superadmin user, currently it does not have any display name, and IMO it will look odd to have more and more pages created and authored by "superadmin". I have actually not a clear idea about the right name, but it should be self explanatory, and superadmin is not in my opinion. I remember we talk about "System", which is a bit better, but we may still find something better. "XWiki System",... please make cleverer proposal :) WDYT ?

On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 8:56 AM, vincent@massol.net wrote:

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Hi devs,

We already had a VOTE about this in the past ( http://markmail.org/message/p5cvswxtrnm54i3m) where we agreed to use the superadmin user.

I see it’s been done only for xclass pages created by XWiki so far.

According to the VOTE we should also do that for pages imported by the packager plugin too.

See also the comments at

https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/5d5020052983d1a4de255104f8a85...

I hope devs still agree about that vote :) And for those who didn’t VOTE at the time, please reply to this mail.

Note: I don’t find it normal that the packager plugin would use the Admin user since it’s a user that isn’t necessarily present in the wiki whereas the superadmin always is.

Thanks -Vincent