[Moin-devel] 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