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"Rajko M." 12/11/2011 6:51 PM >>> Few days ago I had on IRC angry wiki editor that was automatically logged out of the wiki due to inactivity and lost content he worked on. He claimed it was not more them 30 minutes of editing. I didn't timed session inactivity timeout, but it is somewhat short and can surprise people using edit box in a browser, as previous setup allowed much more time.

He suppose to file bug report, but today I couldn't find any for openSUSE - opensuse.org - Wiki.

Matt can you look at this.

Hmmm, I forgot to update the session timeout. The default setting was for one hour. However, there is a "soft" timeout that is set to 2/3 of the actual timeout setting. This would cause a redirect back to the IDP after 40 minutes, pretty close to what the wiki editor claimed. I have upped the timeout value to 6 hours, which will cause this "soft" timeout after 4 hours of inactivity. I believe this is pretty close to what we had before. I am going to test this tonight, but the problem should be fixed now. -Matt

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I have upped the timeout value to 6 hours, which will cause this "soft" timeout after 4 hours of inactivity. I believe this is pretty close to what we had before. I am going to test this tonight, but the problem should be fixed now.

I guess that adding warning about session timeout to text that normally appear in a Edit mode can prevent future problems with contributors caught by surprise. If there is no objections I'll try to find proper files in Mediwiki space and add sentence.

I don't see any problem with it, although I don't know if it's necessary. The wikis have always had a timeout like this, and I am unaware of any complaints except for this one, and only because the timeout was set to such a low value. However, I'm willing to concede that we have some very dedicated editors who may take more than 4 hours on an article :) By the way, I have confirmed that I stay logged in after an hour of inactivity, so I think we are good on that issue. -Matt