[WebMacro-user] Re: Wiki Source Code Update; Please Confirm

[Eric R. <eb...@tc...>]

On Apr 23, 2004, at 3:36 AM, Lane Sharman wrote:

>  ebr,
>
>  I propose to make the following changes this weekend in the interest 
> of greater, global acclaim and popularity for our wiki leading to 12 
> Oscars of Wikidom. Please reply to this email on fri. thanks in 
> 'vance.
>
> 1) New Code and Configuration File Option "Operate In Authenticated 
> Mode"
>  In this mode, no wiki page will be shown until the user successfully 
> completes the login. Perhaps the user should be able to see the 
> default page as well? Of course, the user can complete the new account 
> form.

Sounds good.  What I would do is make a LogonPage that has the 
username/password fields, some words, and a link to "Register"

> 2) Code and Configuration File Option "Administratively approve new 
> account applications"
>  In this mode, a new account will be created with a flag set, 
> "ApprovalPending=True". An administrator for the wiki will need to 
> approve/deny the account which will result in the proper action: 
> TRUE->FALSE or delete the account.

Sounds good too.  I can see why this would be needed.

>  Of course, I will test this pretty vigourously before committing. I 
> will also jar up all the vlh class files and delete all the source 
> folders for this piece of the code. The vlh source in cvs kinda makes 
> the source base a little unwieldy as we have discussed.

That would be cool too.

>  See any car bombs awaiting me in making these changes to the code?

Don't think so.

I am planning on ripping out the Lucene full-text indexing stuff and 
replacing it with Xapian (http://www.xapian.org/).  Xapian is a C++ 
library for fulltext indexing that is f*cking awesome.  It's fast and 
simple.  I've contributed a JNI wrapper for it so it can be used from 
Java, and they've just recently released a new version which includes 
the JNI wrapper.  Sometime soon I'll be updating Wiki too.

eric