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[Aaron Wells <1157543@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Nigel,

Cool beans, it sounds like you know what you're doing. ;)

My only concerns are:

1. Will this make it more difficult to make changes to the database
structures in the future? For instance going from Mahara 1.7 to 1.8 we
refactored all the page layout tables considerably in order to go from a
columns-only layout to a rows-and-columns layout.

2. We're actually trying to reduce the number of serialized data tables
in the database because they've caused us headaches in the past due to
not being very accessible by normal database SELECT & UPDATE operations.
And the PHP serialize() method in particular poses a security risk. (See
https://www.owasp.org/index.php/PHP_Object_Injection ). So, it'd be
preferable to store data in normal DB tables & columns; or if that's not
feasible, to store them as JSON rather than serialize().

Cheers,
Aaron

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Title:
  Record page editing history

Status in Mahara ePortfolio:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  I'd like to "dogfood" Mahara's developer documentation by moving it
  from Mediawiki to the Mahara platform itself, probably as group pages
  so it could still be edited by many people. One of the features that
  is lacking to make this feasible, though, is having an edit history.
  The wiki allows us to keep track of who made what edits, and to revert
  to older versions if necessary.

  So, I'd like to see Mahara gain the ability to keep track of a page's
  edit history. At a minimum it needs:

  1. Who made changes, at what time
  2. What the page looked like at each revision
  3. Ability to revert the page to a previous version

  Also good would be:

  4. Ability to "diff" versions and highlight what changed
  5. Comments that go in the history log
  6. "Publish" ability (including publishing at a later time/date)
  7. Versioning file attachments, see also https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/548195

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