Verified smooth migrations in two podcatchers.
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* Verify that the feeds validate.
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* Subscribe to a fancy feed in some common podcatchers and verify
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display details against a reference podcast.
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* Verify smooth transitions for two common use cases (see testing
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details below).
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### Must-have (for [[schmonz]], anyway)
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* Think carefully about...
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* UTF-8.
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* Whether [[tips/howto avoid flooding aggregators]] suffices for...
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* Converting a simple podcast to a fancy one.
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7. Set up a non-production copy of one of my podcasts.
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* Manually test that feeds match production.
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* Subscribe to the copy in `r2e`, iTunes, Downcast.
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7. Try migrating the copy from simple to fancy.
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* Document the steps I take.
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* Make the feed readers update.
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* Document what happens for each of them.
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* Migrating a fancy podcast from elsewhere into ikiwiki.
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* Think carefully about UTF-8.
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* Verify that _all_ the tests pass (not just my new ones).
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## Migration
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### Upgrading within ikiwiki: from simple to fancy
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#### My test podcast
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For this test, I chose a podcast that tries to work around ikiwiki's
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current limitations by issuing two separate `inline`s:
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* One with `feedonly=yes` that includes `.mdwn`, `.pdf`, and `.mp3`
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* One with `feeds=no` that includes only `.mdwn` (and makes a trail)
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This has the following effects:
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* Browser: sees just the articles (each of which has a manually
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created link to its corresponding media file)
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* Feedreader: sees all the articles and media in one flat stream
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* Podcatcher: sees just the media (sans articles)
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I want instead to write one `inline` with these effects:
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* Browser: sees just the articles (each of which automatically links
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to its enclosure)
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* Feedreader: sees just the articles (each of which specifies its
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enclosure)
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* Podcatcher: sees just the enclosures (each of which has an enclosing
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article, rendered as the media's "description")
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#### Upgrade steps
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7. Set up a non-production copy of the podcast.
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7. Visually diff RSS and Atom feeds against production.
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7. Subscribe to the copy (both feeds) in `r2e`, iTunes, Downcast.
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7. Apply fancypodcast patch to the installed ikiwiki:
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7. `cd ~/Documents/trees/ikiwiki && git checkout fancypodcast`
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7. `git diff --no-prefix master > ~/Documents/trees/localpatches/www/ikiwiki/fancypodcast.diff`
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7. `cd ~/Documents/trees/pkgsrc-current/www/ikiwiki && make deinstall && make install clean`
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7. Verify that simple podcasts are unaffected:
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7. Rerun `ikiwiki --setup`.
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7. `diff -uB simple-before.rss simple-after.rss`
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* A few new elements and attributes, as expected.
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7. `diff -uB simple-before.atom simple-after.atom`
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* No change.
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7. Remove the feed-only `inline` and enable feeds on the remaining one.
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7. Convert articles' manual download links to `\[[!meta enclosure=""]]`.
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7. I want existing and future podcatchers to get my new fancy
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episodes, and I know my podcast isn't in any planets, so I'm
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going to skip [[tips/howto avoid flooding aggregators]].
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7. Rerun `ikiwiki --setup`.
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7. Verify browser shows the same stuff.
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7. `diff -uB simple-after.rss fancy-after.rss # and atom`
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* MP3s and PDFs are no longer naked enclosures, but belong to
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articles as they should.
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* Articles have updated modification times, as they should.
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7. `r2e run` (both RSS and Atom)
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* Nothing new with the default `trust-guid = True` (otherwise
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would expect updated articles).
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7. iTunes "Update Podcast" (both RSS and Atom)
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* Added one episode per article, with article text as the episode
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description.
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* Kept old naked-enclosure episodes around.
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7. Downcast refresh (RSS):
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* Added one episode per article, with article text as the episode
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description.
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* Kept old naked-enclosure episodes around.
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7. Downcast refresh (Atom):
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* Added one episode per article, with no episode description
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(expected, see feature table).
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* Kept old naked-enclosure episodes around.
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Different tradeoffs are possible. These seem okay to me.
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### Importing into ikiwiki: fancy (from another CMS)
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#### My test podcast
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For this test, I chose a podcast currently being published with
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Textpattern and tru_podcast, because I'd strongly prefer to publish
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it with ikiwiki instead.
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#### Upgrade steps
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7. Set up a non-production copy of the podcast.
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7. Visually diff RSS and Atom feeds against production.
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7. Subscribe to the copy (both feeds) in `r2e`, iTunes, Downcast.
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7. With a fancypodcast-enabled ikiwiki installed:
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7. Copy content from Textpattern to ikiwiki:
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7. Match article paths to preserve `/YYYY/MM/DD/post-title` permalinks.
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7. Match enclosure paths (or redirect) to preserve Textpattern's URLs.
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7. Match titles, post dates, and guids with `\[[!meta]]`.
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7. Match feed paths with permanent redirects from `/atom/` to
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`/index.atom` (and same for RSS).
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7. `\[[!inline]]` the articles.
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7. Rerun `ikiwiki --setup`.
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7. Stop Textpattern, start ikiwiki.
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7. Verify that podcatchers see the feeds and don't redownload anything.
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7. Naively add two new blog posts, one with an enclosure.
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7. Verify that podcatchers download the new enclosures.
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## Future improvements
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### Other ideas
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* Don't render template text (e.g., "Use this template to insert a
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note into a page") in feeds.
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* Optionally specify the enclosure's:
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* MIME type, in case `File::MimeInfo` guesses wrong.
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* Duration, in case `ffprobe` guesses wrong.
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