clone 331709 -1 -2 retitle -1 phpwiki: must recommend php4-imap, etc for external auth severity -1 normal retitle -2 phpwiki: must support upgrades of independent wikis severity -1 normal retitle 331709 phpwiki: improved error handling needed for external authentication mechanisms severity 331709 wishlist thanks bts
On Wed, 2005-10-05 at 13:13 -0500, Zed Pobre wrote: > Suggestions: > > Package needs Recommends: for php4-imap and php4-ldap, and needs much > better documentation about configuring authentication. Ok, I'll make this a separate bug. > There need to be upgrade schemas posted for MySQL and PostgreSQL next > to the initial install schemas. Either that, or PHPWiki should > autodetect missing columns or tables and create them as necessary. > The latter would probably be preferable, but is much more work. And this is another separate bug. > PHPWiki needs much better debugging code. Trying new things blindly > one after the other is maddeningly frustrating when you have no idea > if you are even getting closer. Silent failures are the worst case, > but I'd like more detailed information on why IMAP+tls connects > continue to fail, when I can verify via mutt that they are working > normally from other clients. > > The failure of one authentication method shouldn't clobber the > accessibility of the others, particularly when the others come before > the failed method in the stack. I'll tag this as wishlist for now and raise it with upstream. It's a significant piece of work and not something that can be easily tackled in the Debian package itself. I've added warnings to the README.Debian about the suckiness of this situation. Regards -- Matt Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mob +64 275 611 544 www.mattb.net.nz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
