[wp-trac] Re: [WordPress Trac] #5196: Support "minor edits" in Atom

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#5196: Support "minor edits" in Atom
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 Reporter:  rubys        |        Owner:  westi   
     Type:  enhancement  |       Status:  assigned
 Priority:  normal       |    Milestone:  2.7     
Component:  General      |      Version:          
 Severity:  normal       |   Resolution:          
 Keywords:  has-patch    |  
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Comment (by rubys):

 Lloyd:

 The hypothetical discussion you are describing is not a future thing, it
 happens all the time --  not in some far distant future when some response
 to idea 272 finally lands in WP, but today.  The ending in today's
 discussions, however are far different.  They end with the person who
 simply wants to host a planet site shaking their head in dismay and
 muttering "what do you mean that WP doesn't provide a means a means to
 indicate a minor edit?", and then adding an "ignore_in_feed: updated"
 option on every WordPress blog, effectively making life more difficult for
 people who wish to make a significant update.

 I'm not certain what advocacy you are talking about.  My read is that the
 person who opened the idea a year ago didn't have any agenda they were
 attempting to further, other than simply wanting to make WordPress more
 useful for themselves and their readers.

 It is true that RSS 2.0 doesn't have a built in element for precisely this
 purpose.  That's what extensions are for.  One can even put Atom elements
 inside RSS 2.0 feeds, and there is an Atom element designed exactly for
 this purpose.  Note: the atom:updated element is just one possible element
 that could be used for this purpose.  There may be others.  And, in fact,
 WordPress could define one, in a wordpress.org namespace.

 It is also true that not every feed reader has full and complete support
 for every feature defined in every feed format.  This was true before idea
 272 was published, and will continue to be true after ticket 5196 is
 resolved.

 The question as to whether this should be implemented as a plugin or not
 is less interesting to me than the question as to whether or not this
 function will be deployed on wordpress.org.  As I said, the discussions
 are not hypothetical, they are happening today.  In fact, the were
 obviously happening a year ago, when the idea was published.  I dare say
 that they predate the publishing of that idea.  The resolution today is
 that WordPress does not provide a means to indicate that the edits were
 minor.  The resolution is not that WordPress could not do so, or that some
 feed readers may make different choices, but that there is no choice to be
 made as WordPress does not provide a means to capture and convey the
 information.

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