[Users] "Last Updated" shows current time instead of last update

Sandro Bonazzola sbonazzo at redhat.com
Thu Feb 20 15:37:06 UTC 2014


Il 20/02/2014 15:27, Yedidyah Bar David ha scritto:
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Nir Soffer" <nsoffer at redhat.com>
>> To: "Yedidyah Bar David" <didi at redhat.com>
>> Cc: "infra" <infra at ovirt.org>, "users" <users at ovirt.org>
>> Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2014 12:15:42 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Users] "Last Updated" shows current time instead of last update
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Yedidyah Bar David" <didi at redhat.com>
>>> To: "infra" <infra at ovirt.org>, "users" <users at ovirt.org>
>>> Sent: Monday, February 17, 2014 2:43:42 PM
>>> Subject: [Users] "Last Updated" shows current time instead of last update
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Sorry for cross-posting. Not sure what's the correct address to discuss
>>> this.
>>>
>>> Almost all of the pages on the ovirt.org wiki that have "Last Updated:",
>>> actually have:
>>>
>>> Last updated: {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTDAY}}, {{CURRENTYEAR}}<!--This
>>> is
>>> markup for current date, do not change-->
>>>
>>> thus showing the current date and not the last change date. When searching
>>> google you see the last time its robot happened to fetch the page.
>>>
>>> See e.g. [1] for a (possibly non-complete) list.
>>>
>>> Not sure if that's intended or not, but I personally find it useless and
>>> misleading.
>>
>> This is indeed useless and wrong and should be removed.
>>
>> Does this work?
>>
>> Last updated on {{REVISIONDAY}}/{{REVISIONMONTH}}/{{REVISIONYEAR}} by
>> {{REVISIONUSER}}
> 
> If I Edit, then Show preview, it's already updated, even before Save page.
> I personally find it a bit weird. Anyway, I did this on a test page and it
> seems to work, but I have to wait a day to make sure the date does not change...
> 
> In any case, it does affect performance. Not sure it's very significant, though.
> 
> I now changed the following pages (picked up randomly):
> 
> http://www.ovirt.org/Features/Minimum_guaranteed_memory
> http://www.ovirt.org/Features/MultiHostNetworkConfiguration
> http://www.ovirt.org/Features/Node/PluginLiveInstall
> http://www.ovirt.org/Features/Node/PackageRefactoring
> http://www.ovirt.org/Features/Automatic_scaling
> 
> I changed it to:
> 
> Last updated on {{REVISIONYEAR}}-{{REVISIONMONTH}}-{{REVISIONDAY}} by {{REVISIONUSER}}
> 
> That is, ISO date.
> 
> If we do not see a significant impact in a few days, we should probably edit
> all pages, probably with some bot.
> 

+1

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Sandro Bonazzola
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