[Chandler-dev] wiki table editing removed from 0.7 test spec pages

Dan Steinicke dan at osafoundation.org
Wed Aug 29 17:39:21 PDT 2007


We saw some edits from one test spec table appearing on another test 
spec's table on Wednesday evening.  I got freaked out thinking that 
everything was getting all confused.  I had a short discussion on IRC 
and decided the safest thing was to disable the wiki table editing in 
all the test specs.  I have gone ahead and done that.

I really like the ease of use provided by the wiki table editor.  It is 
much easier than editing the raw wiki text when you are in a large 
table.  If there is a chance that using it will cause the kind of cross 
table confusion we were seeing, then I don't think the ease is worth the 
risk.

Jeffrey has a theory that viewing one table while editing another will 
cause your edits to go to both tables.  We are not sure if this is true 
but something was definitely going wrong.  So we have reverted to the 
older, hopefully safer way of doing things.  I regret the extra burden 
this places on people doing the testing and updating the tables.

Dan


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