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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
Mainstream Media-oriented requirements such as "embargo dates" and "editor
on vacation".
The problem with implementing a feature like this is that, since ikwiiki
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.
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]]
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