[dokuwiki] Re: new release notification feature?
- From: "Daniel Mitchell" <DanielMitchell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <dokuwiki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 09:17:23 -0600
> > I think that if the feature is ON in the config (and it should be
ON
> > by default), the notification should be displayed, even if there
is
> > no admin, so I'd go for everybody sees the message.
>
> Okay I updated it accordingly. For non-ACL wikis the message is
displayed to
> all users, when ACL is enabled only admin users will see it.
I think everyone should see it all the time, even non-admin users. I
have an admin account on my wiki, but I never use it, I try and log in
as a normal user as much as possible, that way I can be sure that
everything's working properly for non-admin users. (and, heck, even when
I'm doing admin stuff, I do it by editing the config files directly).
Also, if the admin is someone that's set the wiki up for a group of
users, but isn't regularly using it themselves, there's also the chance
of updates being missed. If every user sees it, then every user has the
chance to hassle the admin until the admin does something about it.
This is how (for example) fogbugz works -- for the last few months, all
the pages have had "there's a new version out!" at the top of them, and
after the first day or so I just stopped seeing it because it's always
there, and then some time later our admin upgraded and it went away.
Maybe if there were some option for the admin to remove the
notification without actually doing the upgrade, but at least that way
you know the admin has consciously decided to not do the upgrade yet,
rather than never finding out about it.
-- dan
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