Re: [Tiki-devel] A default for the list of plugins, whose bodies should be indexed

> Here is my thought:
> - Add an option to each plugin (searchable="y|n"). Give the value
> searchable="y" to all the plugins that we want to index by default.

Please don't call it searchable, that was the name of the future "searchable" 
parameter in plugin syntax params, which is NOT the same thing.  

What you seem to be talking about is a defaultindexable key in the plugin info 
function, with 2 values (I suggest true and false, this is code, not prefs).  

If the key is not present you'd treat it as false (to avoid having to update 
every single plugin).  It would also replace the need for the  
unified_exclude_all_plugins='y'.

> - Add another preference that we could call "Included plugins" different
> from "Except included plugins" (unified_included_plugins). This new
> preference will allow to include plugins with searchable="n" value that we
> want to make indexable without depending on "Exclude all plugins"
> preference.
> - Disable the preference "Exclude all plugins" by default, today this
> preference is enabled by default.

Reading the code, the current behaviour is already confusing even for 
developers.

We have
unified_exclude_all_plugins , with default 'y'.  It doesn't do what it's name 
says.  It's essentially a unified_exclude_all_plugins_by_default.  I propose we 
remove it (because it has a value on currently running servers), unless Victor 
objects.

unified_included_plugins , which currently does nothing, unless 
unified_exclude_all_plugins is true.  On people's server it likely has the list 
of plugins they want indexed, so we can't really change it.  But it should 
really be renamed to unified_additional_default_indexable_plugins. It's only 
used one place in the code in WikiText.php, so we can use 
additional_default_plugins as the value name in the code)

unified_excluded_plugins, This option does what it says, it unconditionally 
excludes those plugins from search.  We need this, to disable buggy plugins 
whose value crashes the index.

Now, unless we go overboard with defaults, I don't think we need a 
"unified_additional_default_not_indexable_plugins" to override the default.

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Benoit Grégoire