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Ken Coar edited comment on WHIMSY-398 at 3/21/23 11:21 PM:
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I'm not sure I was clear. The members.txt field was the *only* one I edited.
If there are portions of that field that should not be edited, that should
probably be made clear — or the authoritative source moved out of something the
user can edit.
Yeah, if that field/file is going to contain authoritative origin data, Whimsey
shouldn't allow a save if those are modified. A better solution long-term
would be to break them out into separate read-only (for the user) fields, but
that's a rather bigger job.
So should I open an improvement issue to move 'mustn't touch' fields elsewhere?
Aren't they already in an LDAP field somewhere? (Probably populated from
members.txt...)
This can probably be downgraded to 'minor' but I think it's still a bug. The
current behaviour certainly violates the PLA (Principle of Least Astonishment).
:D
was (Author: coar):
I'm not sure I was clear. The members.txt field was the *only* one I edited.
If there are portions of that field that should not be edited, that should
probably be made clear — or the authoritative source moved out of something the
user can edit.
> Editing my Whimsy members.txt messed up my data
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>
> Key: WHIMSY-398
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WHIMSY-398
> Project: Whimsy
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Roster
> Environment: Firefox 107.0 on Fedora
> Reporter: Ken Coar
> Priority: Major
>
> I just used [https://whimsy.apache.org/roster/committer/coar] to edit my
> '{{{}Members.txt{}}}' entry, and now it appears to be gone. As does my
> 'forms on file' and 'member status' fields, possibly among others.
> I _did_ remove some of the textual information that appeared to be duplicated
> in the other fields on the page (like PMC membership, '{{{}Avail ID{}}}',
> {_}&c.{_}), but AFAIK i didn't delete the entire {{Members.txt}} form field
> *content* before clicking on submit.
> So, hopefully, there's a way to roll this back. The
> {{/committers/{_}user{_}}} form appears to be an update-in-place, so I can't
> use my browser's Back button to move to a version prior to the edit.
> If some of the information that populates the other fields on the form has
> its authoritative version in the {{members.txt}} entry, it came as a surprise
> to me..!
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