[Pmwiki-users] Re: Re: Author tracking questions

Christian Ridderström chr
Sun Feb 1 13:50:14 CST 2004


On Sun, 1 Feb 2004, John Feezell wrote:

> I'm wondering ... what would be a minor change?  Perhaps what I would 
> consider
> to be minor would not be minor to someone else.

See my other mail about the snapshot from MoinMoin.

/Christian

PS. This is a good example of why you shouldn't top post...  at first I 
didn't understand what you meant.
> 
> /JF
> 
> On Sun, 1 Feb 2004 13:19:46 -0700, Patrick R. Michaud <pmichaud at pobox.com> 
> wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 08:46:46PM +0100, Christian Ridderstr?????m wrote:
> >> > What should PmWiki do if someone doesn't fill in the author 
> >> field--should
> >> > it return them to the edit page with a note of some sort that the 
> >> author
> >> > field is required?  (Of course this would need to be optional.)
> >>
> >> I guess one alternative would be to have a checkbox called:
> >> 	[ ] I'm an anonymous coward
> >
> > Or, one could just put that in the note itself--"If you're an anonymous
> > coward, just enter 'anonymous'".   :-)
> >
> >> Speaking of checkboxes, I think there should also be a checkbox for:
> >>
> >> 	[ ] This is a minor change, don't track this change.
> >
> > Well, all changes have to be tracked, otherwise the ability to restore
> > pages to previous versions gets messed up.  But what can be changed
> > the display of the page history output--it could suppress those
> > changes that are marked as minor.  This might mean that the remaining
> > changes don't appear entirely consistent with each other, but I can
> > live with that.  (Yes, I know that PmWiki could potentially combine
> > the minor changes together to remove the inconsistencies, but that's
> > just a bit more work than I'm wanting to do at the moment...).
> >
> >> > Actually, for now I've done [[$LastModifiedBy]], to remain
> >> > consistent with [[$LastModified]] and [[$LastModifiedHost]].
> >> > PmWiki internally sets the $Author global variable to be the name of 
> >> the
> >> > person currently editing/browsing pages.
> >>
> >> These directives sounds good to me, although it's of course confusing 
> >> that
> >> the internal variable has a completely different name...
> >
> > Not really--they represent different things.  $LastModifiedBy identifies
> > who last edited the document in question, while $Author indicates who
> > is currently editing/viewing the document.  I suppose I could use
> > $LastModifiedAuthor or $LastAuthor, but somehow $LastModifiedBy "reads
> > better" to me.
> >
> > Pm
> >
> 
> 
> 
> 

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Christian Ridderstr?m                           http://www.md.kth.se/~chr





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