MoinMoin Feature Request: Retain Archive of Unique Diffs

[Chris Vandersip]

I've searched high and low for a solution to this without success, so
here's my proposal:

BACKGROUND
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Here at the office we've started using the RSS feature in RecentChanges
to track changes to our MoinMoin 1.3.4 wiki site via Firefox/Sage and
Thunderbird RSS. It's a great feature, but it appears to be lacking an
important capability that limits the feature's effectiveness---

ISSUE
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The RecentChanges page only lists the last change for a particular page
and does not retain previous changes to that page within the
RecentChanges timeline. The ugly side effect of this for RSS feeds is
that if you decide to not use the "unique=1" option, you'll get
notification of each change, but the link will be the same in every
article.

So, let's say you haven't read your wiki rss in a few days and you see 8
articles indicating 8 changes to a particular page. When you click on
the link within the articles, instead of getting a diff page for each
change, every diff page shows only the latest diff.

REQUEST
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Create a configurable parameter for maintaining an archive of past diffs
available for individual pages (just as you can view a Revision History
listing in Get Info) and for each diff to be available in the
RecentChanges timeline, so that links in the RSS articles will be unique
and point to specific diffs.

Additionally, if this was a tunable parameter, one could set a limit on
the length of the diff archiving, e.g.

diff_archive_length = 7 #for either days or number of diffs

Thanks,

Chris


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[Chris Vandersip]

Post by Chris Vandersip
REQUEST
-------
Create a configurable parameter for maintaining an archive of past diffs
available for individual pages (just as you can view a Revision History
listing in Get Info) and for each diff to be available in the
RecentChanges timeline, so that links in the RSS articles will be unique
and point to specific diffs.
Additionally, if this was a tunable parameter, one could set a limit on
the length of the diff archiving, e.g.
diff_archive_length = 7 #for either days or number of diffs

Of course, after I sent the above, I discovered that MoinMoin *does*
retain an archive already, and the archive can be traversed in the Diff
column of Get Info/Revision History of any page. One can display all the
diffs for a page by appending the "&rev2=" and "&rev1=" filters to the
?action=diff command in the URL.

ex. http://www.mydomain.com/wpwiki/FrontPage?action=diff&rev2=59&rev1=54
================

So, armed with this new knowledge, I modify the request: Forget about
creating a configurable parameter and just incorporate the &rev-style
filtering into the RecentChanges/RSS feature to allow for unique past
diffs to be read. Looking at the XML page that displays when you press
the RSS button on Recent Changes, it looks like the code that creates
this page could be modified to include the &rev filters to the URL links
in feed articles.

Chris


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