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diff --git a/doc/todo/tagging_with_a_publication_date.mdwn b/doc/todo/tagging_with_a_publication_date.mdwn index 80240ec5a..39fc4e220 100644 --- a/doc/todo/tagging_with_a_publication_date.mdwn +++ b/doc/todo/tagging_with_a_publication_date.mdwn @@ -38,3 +38,34 @@ on vacation". > > > > I no longer have the original wiki for which I wanted this feature, but I can > > see using it on future ones. -- [[DonMarti]] + +>>> FWIW, for the case where one wants to update a site offline, +>>> using an ikiwiki instance on a laptop, and include some deffered +>>> posts in the push, the ad-hoc cron job type approach will be annoying. +>>> +>>> In modern ikiwiki, I guess the way to accomplish this would be to +>>> add a pagespec that matches only pages posted in the present or past. +>>> Then a page can have its post date set to the future, using meta date, +>>> and only show up when its post date rolls around. +>>> +>>> Ikiwiki will need to somehow notice that a pagespec began matching +>>> a page it did not match previously, despite said page not actually +>>> changing. I'm not sure what the best way is. +>>> +>>> * One way could be to +>>> use a needsbuild hook and some stored data about which pagespecs +>>> exclude pages in the future. (But I'm not sure how evaluating the +>>> pagespec could lead to that metadata and hook being set up.) +>>> * Another way would be to use an explicit directive to delay a +>>> page being posted. Then the directive stores the metadata and +>>> sets up the needsbuild hook. +>>> * Another way would be for ikiwiki to remember the last +>>> time it ran. It could then easily find pages that have a post +>>> date after that time, and treat them the same as it treats actually +>>> modified files. Or a plugin could do this via a needsbuild hook, +>>> probably. (Only downside to this is it would probably need to do +>>> a O(n) walk of the list of pages -- but only running an integer +>>> compare per page.) +>>> +>>> You'd still need a cron job to run ikiwiki -refresh every hour, or +>>> whatever, so it can update. --[[Joey]] |