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Sebb commented on WHIMSY-398:
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As I wrote, Whimsy should probably check that the required elements are still
present before updating the file.
AFAIK this is the first time this problem has occurred, and given that the file
is in SVN, reverting is easy. So it's not a high priority.
Note that the fields are not generally stored in LDAP.
Obviously AvailId is stored in LDAP, but as it used as the key, it must appear
in all instances of related data.
> 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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