412153 - Planet should not re-publish (at the top of planet) posts that are updated

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Websites :: planet.mozilla.org, defect)

Description

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

I made some small link changes tonight to my "Requiem for a Rendering Engine" post from last week, causing WordPress to gain (or change, perhaps) the updated tag on the post.  All of the sudden, Sam yells at me that the post is at the top of planet.m.o :(

Planet needs to be smart enough to update posts "in situ" if they're still on display when they're updated, but not take the updated tag/date to mean "hey, this is a new post, display it at the top of planet.m.o".
 
Relevant snippet of my feed:

		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Smokey</name>
						<uri>http://www.ardisson.org</uri>
					</author>
		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Requiem for a rendering engine]]></title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.ardisson.org/afkar/2008/01/01/requiem-for-a-rendering-engine/" />
		<id>http://www.ardisson.org/afkar/2008/01/01/requiem-for-a-rendering-engine/</id>
		<updated>2008-01-13T06:08:31Z</updated>
		<published>2008-01-02T02:57:52Z</published>

Comment 1

[Jeremy Baron]

IIRC, some blog software allows tweaking the update behavior on the edit form (so you can have stuff go to the top if you think it's worthy of rereading and not otherwise), planet allows a per feed option to ignore the update time, and that option is used for some pmo feeds.

Comment 2

[Reed Loden [:reed]]

Jeremy is correct. Would you like for us to ignore updates from your blog for old posts (as far as time/date goes)?

Comment 3

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

WordPress has an option to change the "post timestamp" (which seems to correspond to the "published" key), but nothing (that I can find) to suppress changing the value of the "updated" key.

I really think planet should be able to be smarter about this as a whole, but if it'll keep me from spamming planet when I fix broken things, ignoring updates on old posts in my feed seems a workable compromise.

Comment 4

[Robert Accettura [:raccettura]]

The behavior is correct.  We can ignore the value of updated in your feed by using:

ignore_in_feed = updated

We do this for several already.

The other option is to use RSS.  

This is a feature in Atom, not a bug.  To let you know when a post is updated.

Comment 5

[Reed Loden [:reed]]

Added |ignore_in_feed = updated| to your blog.

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