web commit by https://id.mayfirst.org/jamie/: Moving discussion to discussion page.

diff --git a/doc/todo/Set_arbitrary_date_to_be_used_by_calendar_plugin.mdwn b/doc/todo/Set_arbitrary_date_to_be_used_by_calendar_plugin.mdwn
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--- a/doc/todo/Set_arbitrary_date_to_be_used_by_calendar_plugin.mdwn
+++ b/doc/todo/Set_arbitrary_date_to_be_used_by_calendar_plugin.mdwn
@@ -6,44 +6,6 @@ Here's a patch to the calendar plugin. If you specify an event preprocessor in a
 
 That date will be used instead of the post creation time when displaying the calendar.
 
-> Thanks for coming up with a patch.. Let me make sure I understand its
-> rationalle.
-> 
-> The meta plugin already allows modifying the page creation time,
-> which is what the calendar plugin uses.
-> 
-> So, it seems to me that the use of this patch is for recording events in
-> the future. You'd not want a page for a future event to claim it was
-> created in the future. I suppose you could also use it for events in the
-> past, if you didn't want to change the creation time for some reason.
-> (Perhaps you're doing a calendar of historical events, for example.)
->
-> Accurate? --[[Joey]]
-
->> Thanks for the feedback. Thinking about what you said ... I suspect my patch 
->> doesn't belong in the calendar plugin, which does a very specific thing 
->> (create a calendar to show when blog posts were created). I'm really angling 
->> toward an event calendar (as mentioned on [[todo/plugin]]). I'd like to preserve 
->> the page creation time - which is useful and important information in its own right 
->> - and be able to generate a calendar with links to particular posts that will show 
->> up on the calendar based on an arbitrary date. Perhaps this should be re-considered 
->> as a separate plugin? --[[Jamie]]
-
->>> I think it makes sense to have only one calendar, if possible.
->>> I think your event stuff is fine, the only thing we might want to add
->>> is a config option for the calendar, to control whether it looks at the
->>> event date, or the creation date. --[[Joey]]
-
->>>> Ok - I can work on that. One question - the existing calendar module has it's own 
->>>> functions for building an html display of a calendar. HTML::CalendarMonth seems to 
->>>> provide that functionality. My instincts are to rip out the code in the calendar plugin
->>>> and use the existing module. On the other hand, that creates added dependencies. 
->>>> Suggestions anyone? --[[Jamie]]
-
->>>>> I'm all for ripping code out of ikiwiki where CPAN can be used, as
->>>>> long as the resulting code and html are good. --[[Joey]]
-
-
     --- calendar.pm.orig  2008-06-24 22:36:09.000000000 -0400
     +++ calendar.pm 2008-06-24 22:51:11.000000000 -0400
     @@ -23,6 +23,7 @@