From 499a17a55a41185c8b273d483f87d3f6997c80f4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joey Hess Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 07:43:31 -0400 Subject: [PATCH 1/1] web commit by http://smcv.pseudorandom.co.uk/ --- .../ability_to_force_particular_UUIDs_on_blog_posts.mdwn | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/todo/ability_to_force_particular_UUIDs_on_blog_posts.mdwn diff --git a/doc/todo/ability_to_force_particular_UUIDs_on_blog_posts.mdwn b/doc/todo/ability_to_force_particular_UUIDs_on_blog_posts.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..3c2dc27bd --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/todo/ability_to_force_particular_UUIDs_on_blog_posts.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +When converting an existing blog to ikiwiki it would be useful to be able to preserve any existing UUIDs on posts, in order to avoid flooding aggregators. + +Also, it should be possible to change the canonical URL of a post, i.e. the atom (e.g. leaving a redirector behind) while keeping the same UUID (so that aggregators don't get confused). + +Ideally UUIDs for blog posts should be chosen when the post is created, and frozen permanently by checking them in along with the content. + +Perhaps ikiwiki's blogging functionality could be hooked up to the [[meta]] plugin, with a new meta keyword (uuid? feed-uuid? atom-uuid?) to achieve this. -- 2.45.0