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Joey Hess 2008-09-11 16:15:22 -04:00
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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
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> 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]]