Re: updating an entry without re-publishing

> On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Michael Bien<mbien@...> wrote:
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>> hello everyone,
>>
>> i noticed that when i modify an old entry (like fixing a url of an image)
>> the date in the rss feed is updated too which republishes the entry in many
>> blog aggregators (however the date of the permalink stays).
>>
>> it would be cool when there would be another button next to the "Post to
>> Weblog" to update e.g. old entries silently.
>>    
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> Just a note on how things work in the RSS/Atom feeds:
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> When you edit an already published entry, Roller updates the entry's
> update time but not the its publish time. In the RSS/Atom feeds,
> entries are sorted by publish time. So, if you edit an entry that's
> old enough then you won't even see any change reflected in your feeds.
>
> I'm not sure how we'd support a silent update. Perhaps we simply leave
> the update time out of the feed? That might work, except for
> aggregators that do a diff or checksum on entry content to detect
> updates.
>
> - Dave
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