[OGDev] Refactoring CGI::Wiki::Plugin::RSS::ModWiki and OpenGuides::Feed

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 09:32:48AM +0100, Nick Burch wrote:

> I've been looking through the codebase, seeing if it's possible to enable 
> rss feeds for more things. I think it is going to be possible, but it's 
> going to require refactoring of both CGI::Wiki::Plugin::RSS::ModWiki and 
> OpenGuides::Feed to support it.
> 
> Currently, it's just possible to get feeds of the recent changes list 
> (with filtering by username, and changing the number shown, but that's 
> about it).
> 
> I'd like to extend the rss support so that we can have recent changes 
> style RSS feeds of:
> * recent changes (as now)
> * all the versions of a node
> * search results
> And then something similar for locales and categories.
> 
> 
> However, Earle is also planning some refactoring to this code. I believe 
> he's planning to add Atom support (Earle - can you confirm).

This is already present and I'm in the process of integrating both into
Wiki::Toolkit. See changesets from last night. I'll prod you when
they're ready (and I'll probably do another development release then
too).

> Before I just go ahead and co-ordinate my changes with Earle, I thought I 
> should check:
> * Is anyone else also planning refactoring of these modules?
> * Does anyone have thoughts / suggestions on my plans?

I think you need to give us an idea of how you plan to refactor these
first :)

Dominic.

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