updating an entry without re-publishing

[Michael Bien]

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.

best regards,

Michael Bien
http://michael-bien.blogdns.com/

[Dave-401]

On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Michael Bien<mbien@...> wrote:
> 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.

Just a note on how things work in the RSS/Atom feeds:

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

[Alfonso Romero]

Hi:

I'm trying to use autopost from Posterous to Roller, without any success.
Has anyone tried this?

Thanks in advance for your response,

Alfonso Romero

[Jason Rumney]

Alfonso Romero wrote:
> I'm trying to use autopost from Posterous to Roller, without any
> success. Has anyone tried this?

Look in the Roller logs for error messages. Often compatibility problems
are caused by the client having only been tested with loosely typed
languages like PHP and Ruby, so when they hit a strongly typed Java
server, errors like assigning 0 and 1 to booleans in the XML-RPC
suddenly become a problem. If you find specific errors where it looks
like Roller could be more lenient with its parsing, report them, as Dave
has fixed a number of such bugs I've reported to improve compatibility.

[Michael Bien]

Dave wrote:

> On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Michael Bien<mbien@...> wrote:
>  
>> 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.
>>    
>
> Just a note on how things work in the RSS/Atom feeds:
>
> 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
>
>
>  

I understand. So updating an entry which isn't any more in the feed
should be save which is more than sufficient for my personal blog.

thanks,

--
Michael Bien
http://michael-bien.blogdns.com/