user property missing, what does it mean and shall we do something about it?

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user property missing, what does it mean and shall we do something about it? #7080

Closed txau closed 3 months ago

txau commented 3 months ago

Running a check on all the databases revealed that many entities have no property "user". I don't know exactly what that property means:

The user that created the entity originally?
The owner? But this is handled by permissions actually

Also why this information is missing and what does it mean for us:

The user was deleted and we are also deleting that historical data?
Shall we denormalize that value instead?

RafaPolit commented 3 months ago

User is the user that creates the entity.
Public submitted entities probably shouldn't have a user and that could be the ones you are seeing, a quick check in the activity log may give some feedback. The implications of this is probably low to none. This is legacy structure that probably should be removed.

txau commented 3 months ago

Ok. Let's assume it is ok to have entities without users.