[Rd] RSS Feed of NEWS needs a hand

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 02/04/2024 8:50 a.m., Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> 
> On 2 April 2024 at 07:37, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> |
> | On 2 April 2024 at 08:21, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> | | I have just added R-4-4-branch to the feeds.  I think I've also fixed
> | | the \I issue, so today's news includes a long list of old changes.
> |
> | These feeds can fussy: looks like you triggered many updates. Feedly
> | currently greets me with 569 new posts (!!) in that channel.
> 
> Now 745 -- and the bigger issue seems to be that the 'posted at' timestamp is
> wrong and 'current' so all the old posts are now seen as 'fresh'. Hence the
> flood ... of unsorted post.
> 
> blosxom, simple as it is, takes (IIRC) filesystem ctime as the posting
> timestamp so would be best if you had a backup with the old timestamps.
> 

Looks like those dates are gone -- the switch from svn to git involved 
some copying, and I didn't preserve timestamps.

I'll see about regenerating the more recent ones.  I don't think there's 
much historical interest in the pre-4.0 versions, so maybe I'll just 
nuke those.

Duncan Murdoch