[Rd] RSS Feed of NEWS needs a hand

[Simon Urbanek]

Duncan,

I have fixed up the repo with git restore-mtime -- I think that should solve it - please check if it did what we needed.

Cheers,
Simon


> On Apr 3, 2024, at 2:41 AM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan using gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
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