transient merged; bookkeeping

debian/changelog

@@ -2,6 +2,18 @@ ikiwiki (3.20110125) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
 
   * editpage: Avoid inheriting internal page types.
   * htmltidy: Avoid breaking the sidebar when websetup is running.
+  * transient: New utility plugin that allows transient pages to
+    be stored in .ikiwiki/transient/ (smcv)
+  * aggregate: Aggregated content is stored in the transient underlay.
+    (Existing aggregated content is not moved, since it will eventually
+    expire and be removed) (smcv)
+  * autoindex, tag: Added autoindex_commit and tag_autocreate_commit that
+    can be unset to make index files and tags respectively not be committed,
+    and instead be stored in the transient underlay.
+    Closes: #544322 (smcv)
+  * autoindex: Adapted to use add_autofile. Slight behavior changes
+    in edge cases that are probably really bug fixes. (smcv)
+  * recentchanges: Use transient underlay (smcv)
 
  -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue, 01 Feb 2011 21:00:57 -0400
 

debian/copyright

@@ -135,6 +135,10 @@ Files: 404.pm
 Copyright: © 2009 Simon McVittie <http://smcv.pseudorandom.co.uk/>
 License: GPL-2+
 
+Files: transient.pm
+Copyright: © 2011 Simon McVittie <http://smcv.pseudorandom.co.uk/>
+License: GPL-2+
+
 Files: wmd.pm getsource.pm
 Copyright: © 2009 William Uther
 License: GPL-2+

doc/bugs/removal_of_transient_pages.mdwn

@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+The remove plugin cannot remove [[todo/transient_pages]].
+
+> this turns out to be harder than
+> I'd hoped, because I don't want to introduce a vulnerability in the
+> non-regular-file detection, so I'd rather defer that. --[[smcv]]
+
+This is particularly a problem for tag pages, and autoindex
+created pages. So both plugins default to not creating transient
+pages, until this is fixed.  --[[Joey]] 
+
+> I'll try to work out which of the checks are required for security
+> and which are just nice-to-have, but I'd appreciate any pointers
+> you could give. --[[smcv]]
+
+>> I assume by "non-regular file", you are referring to the check
+>> in remove that the file "Must exist on disk, and be a regular file" ?
+>> --[[Joey]] 

doc/todo/autoindex_should_use_add__95__autofile.mdwn

@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 `add_autofile` is a generic version of [[plugins/autoindex]]'s code,
 so the latter should probably use the former. --[[smcv]]
 
+> [[merged|done]] --[[Joey]] 
+
 ----
 
 [[!template id=gitbranch branch=smcv/ready/autoindex-autofile author="[[smcv]]"]]

doc/todo/transient_pages.mdwn

@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@ It could also be used for an [[todo/alias_directive]].
 
 --[[smcv]]
 
+> All [[merged|done]] --[[Joey]] 
+
 --------------------------
 
 [[!template id=gitbranch branch=smcv/ready/transient author="[[smcv]]"]]
@@ -27,14 +29,24 @@ It could also be used for an [[todo/alias_directive]].
 Related branches:
 
 * `ready/tag-test`: an extra regression test for tags
+  > merged --[[Joey]] 
 * either `transient-relative` or `transient-relative-api`: avoid using `Cwd`
   on initialization
+  > merged the latter --[[Joey]]
 * `ready/transient-aggregate`: use for aggregate
+  > merged --[[Joey]]
 * `ready/transient-autoindex`: optionally use for autoindex,
   which is [[!debbug 544322]] (includes autoindex-autofile from
   [[todo/autoindex should use add__95__autofile]])
+  > merged. I do note that this interacts badly with ikiwiki-hosting's
+  > backup/restore/branch handling, since that does not back up the
+  > transientdir by default, and so autoindex will not recreate the
+  > "deleted" pages. I'll probably have to make it back up the transientdir
+  > too. --[[Joey]]
 * `ready/transient-recentchanges`: use for recentchanges
+  > merged --[[Joey]] 
 * `ready/transient-tag`: optionally use for tag (includes tag-test)
+  > merged --[[Joey]]
 
 I think this branch is now enough to be useful. It adds the following:
 
@@ -146,6 +158,9 @@ Not done yet (in that branch, at least):
   >> you could give. Note that my branch wasn't meant to enable either
   >> by default, and now hopefully doesn't. --[[smcv]]
 
+  >>> Opened a new bug for this, [[bugs/removal_of_transient_pages]]
+  >>> --[[Joey]] 
+
 * Transient tags that don't match any pages aren't deleted: I'm not sure
   that that's a good idea anyway, though. Similarly, transient autoindexes
   of directories that become empty aren't deleted.