On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 03:08:22PM +0100, Kake L Pugh wrote:
Hello. At the moment, when you ask for an atom feed of the entire site, it looks something like this:
<entry> <title>Adam And Eve, SW1H 9EX</title> [...] <summary>Add Category Real Ale to GBG pubs. [AutoKake]</summary> <updated>2007-05-04T17:46:28+01:00</updated> <author><name>AutoKake</name></author> [...] </entry>
Since we now have a proper summary field, should we putting its value in here instead of the latest change comment?
I think there is continuing confusion about what the RSS feeds are feeds of -- the content, or the changes?
If they are feeds of changes, then the summary is not correct -- that's a summary of the node, not of the change.
Boston has always treated them as feeds of nodes, ordered by most recent update. Hence our (my) full-node-text output by default.
So, I'm in favor, but it does mean changing the meaning of these RSS feeds, in my eyes, and I think that should be a consideration in the decision.
Regards,