Tech note links in RSS feed
(1) By Joel Dueck (joeld) on 2018-12-18 23:18:27 [link] [source]
A humble question...
When I go to /timeline?y=e for a repo in my browser, what I see are links to /technote/abcde123 etc. That is, links to view each tech note.
But when I go to /timeline.rss?y=e, all the links are instead pointing to /info/fedb6543, that is links to view raw artifacts which are instances of the tech notes (and which thus have no wiki/markdown formatting).
Is there a way to have an RSS feed for tech notes such that each item's <link> element points to its /technote/ URI?
Same might be asked of RSS feeds which are limited to wiki pages? (timeline.rss?y=w)
(2) By Joel Dueck (joeld) on 2019-01-23 19:22:18 in reply to 1 [source]
Although there have been no replies to this, and although it has been a very long time since I used C on any platform, I want this feature badly enough that I am blundering my way through figuring out how to write a patch for it.
I am looking to add a parameter, timeline.rss?prose=1 that will A) limit results to only tech notes and wiki pages, and B) set the <link> element for each <item> in the RSS feed to use /technote/ID for tech notes and /wiki?name=Page+Name for wiki pages, and (stretch goal) C) include the complete contents of each page in the item's <content> tag (converted to HTML and included as CDATA).
The y parameter could still be used to limit the results to just tech notes (e) or just wiki pages (w). If prose=1 is used and y is used to specify anything other than e or w, the result would be an empty feed.
Use of the tkt=UUID, tag=TAG, or wiki=NAME filters would have no effect when prose=1 is in use.
If anyone knows of any big problems with this approach that would prevent it from being eventually accepted into trunk (or from working at all) and wants to save me wasting a lot of time, feel free to chime in.