Mandatory comment on wiki changes

[luca.ceresoli@…]

I'd like to be able to force users to enter a non-empty comment when editing a wiki page.

Motivation:

It's easy to forget (or to be too lazy) to add a comment when editing wiki pages.

As a project admin, this makes it hard for me to find a specific change in the wiki page history or to review recent activity on the timeline.

It would also be nice to force a minimum comment length, or they'll quickly learn they can just hit space.

[Christian Boos]

This has been brought up numerous time, search:"mandatory wiki comment".

See #2839 which even has a patch.

[Remy Blank]

This sounds like a nice and simple sample plugin, that we could even place into tracext so that it can be easily enabled.

Should I write a formal proposal for this tracext namespace on trac-dev, or just go ahead and create it?

[Ryan Ollos <ryano@…>]

Replying to luca.ceresoli@…:

I'd like to be able to force users to enter a non-empty comment when editing a wiki page.

There is a ​ForceCommentPlugin on Trac-Hacks.

[Christian Boos]

Replying to rblank:

This sounds like a nice and simple sample plugin, that we could even place into tracext so that it can be easily enabled.

Why not if you find it useful (this will at least illustrate IWikiManipulator).

Should I write a formal proposal for this tracext namespace on trac-dev, or just go ahead and create it?

Both ;-)

We should then discuss about how to nicely present those extra optional features to the admin, as the current "Plugins" admin panel is not really user friendly enough (e.g. group components by module path instead of a flag list, show the component docstring for easier discovery of what a component does).

[Remy Blank]

Replying to cboos:

(e.g. group components by module path instead of a flag list, show the component docstring for easier discovery of what a component does).

Good ideas! I'll start the tracext namespace, add to it the commit_ticket_updater plugin in multirepos, and write a message to trac-dev.

Oh, and open a new ticket for that, so that I don't need to hijack this one ;-)