On 28-Mar-06, at 5:48 AM, Moshe Weitzman wrote:
John Handelaar wrote:
Gerhard Killesreiter wrote:
John Handelaar wrote:
However, if you're going to assign all deleted content to one account, can it please not be Anonymous User?
Too late. So you committed it anyway, despite asking for objections? May I ask what the point was of your original message? The old user deletion may have been broken but it was far less destructive to data than this.
I'm sure that killes saw your objection, but decided that the benefits of the patch outweigh the costs. You can disagree, but he also has the right to make this decision. His call for objections does not imply that he has to stop if any arise.
This project is a never ending iteration. We'll get this right eventually. Most reasonable people will agree that assigning to the same uid as anonymous is not a perfect solution. Some rainy day, I'm sure a patch will arise which assigns all this content to uid=-1 or something like that and we'll begin the process again.
Well..."some rainy day" -- anyone that wants the other functionality (which I'm definitely +1 for), please make a patch! I'm sure Gerhard will apply a nicely coded patch... -- Boris