I've noticed that many handbook pages with very *minor* changes switching authors. The only way I can change authors is if I explicitly change the field. There was a bug before that did this automatically. Is that still present for people with different roles or are these individuals changing the fields?

The biggest problem I see with this is that the original authors will loose any tracking abilities since they are disassociated with the page. This helps make a mess of things since the authors who knew enough to write the handbook pages will never know of any comments attached for possible corrections or if the edits done on them is correct at all. I didn't check a broad selection of altered pages to know, but the ones I found did not warrant a change in authors.

http://drupal.org/documentation-writers-guide

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add1sun’s picture

add1sun commented
Status: Active » Closed (works as designed)

This is a "feature" (bug) in D5 book module. It is fixed in D6 so once we upgrade it will go away. The current bug effects everyone who edits pages (docs team) that are not also site maintainers. The SM role has the perms to change authors so it doesn't reset for us.

dvessel’s picture

dvessel commented

Ah, okay. That makes sense. I thought it was fixed already.

Barry Madore’s picture

Barry Madore commented
Component: Misc » Other documentation issues
NewZeal’s picture

NewZeal commented

If anyone wants to remove this feature from book.module version 5, here is where it is done:

/**
 * Implementation of hook_submit().
 */
function book_submit(&$node) {
  global $user;
  // Set default values for non-administrators.
  if (!user_access('administer nodes')) {
    $node->revision = 1;
//    $node->uid = $user->uid;
  }
}

Comment out $node->uid = $user->uid; as above