[Phpwiki-talk] GroupWikiPage

[Joby W. <joby@u.washington.edu>]

I am working on the GroupWikiPage class and I have a question on 
implementation.  GroupWikiPage is an class that in an implementation of 
Groups for phpwiki, in which the list of group members is in a WikiPage:

GroupAnnoying:
* BobTheBuilder
* TinkyWinky
* BarnyTheDinosaur

I have a method to search for all groups that a particular user is in 
(for use with searches, etc), and I have been coding it so that it 
searches for all '/^Group/' pages.  But do we want to do this?  Or 
should we require that for a Group page to be a recognized group page it 
must be listed on a GroupGroups page?

Advantages of GroupGroups:
1) Better top down management of groups.
2) Quicker/easier generation of grouplists.

Disadvantages:
1) Just searching would involve less management -- which is the halmark 
of the GroupWikiPage method of defining Groups.

Viewpoints?  Should I do both (GroupWikiPageOpen and GroupWikiPageClosed)?

thanks,

jbw