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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 044ba2e8a..8c20760ab 100644 --- a/doc/todo/tagging_with_a_publication_date.mdwn +++ b/doc/todo/tagging_with_a_publication_date.mdwn @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Feature idea: I'd like to be able to tag pages in an ikiwiki blog with a publication date, and have the option of building a blog that excludes publication dates in the future. (meta pubdate= ?) - + I'm using ikiwiki on git for a "tip of the day" RSS feed, and I'd like to be able to queue up a bunch of items instead of literally putting in one tip per day. In the future I think this will come in handy for other @@ -12,6 +12,13 @@ on vacation". > is a wiki compiler, if something causes content to change based on the > date, then the wiki needs to be rebuilt periodically. So you'd need a > cron job or something. -> -> Implemeting this feature probably needs -> [[todo/plugin_dependency_calulation]] to be implemented. --[[Joey]] +> +> Thinking about this some more, if you're going to have a cron job, you +> could just set up a branch containing the future post. The branch could +> have a name like 20080911. Then have the cron job git merge the day's +> branch, if any, into master each day. And voila, post is completly hidden +> until published. You'd want to avoid merge conflicts in your cron job .. +> but they'd be unlikely if you limited yourself to just adding new +> pages. Alternatively, for larger organisations wishing to deploy more +> sweeping changes on a given date, replace cron job with intern.. ;-) +> --[[Joey]] |