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

Yedidyah Bar David didi at redhat.com
Sun Feb 23 06:53:29 UTC 2014


----- 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 8:02:42 PM
> Subject: Re: [Users] "Last Updated" shows current time instead of last update
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Yedidyah Bar David" <didi at redhat.com>
> > To: "Nir Soffer" <nsoffer at redhat.com>
> > Cc: "infra" <infra at ovirt.org>, "users" <users at ovirt.org>
> > Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2014 4:27:21 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Users] "Last Updated" shows current time instead of last
> > update
> > 
> > ----- 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.
> 
> Better!
> 
> But see Dave version, which uses zero-padded day {{REVISIONDAY2}}

Now changed the above pages to this.

> 
> > 
> > If we do not see a significant impact in a few days, we should probably
> > edit
> > all pages, probably with some bot.
> 
> I don't see any reason why this should effect performance. The "expensive"
> warning
> is about showing revision meta data for another page.

Well, I did meter it and it's somewhat slower. Not sure why.

So: anyone with sufficient rights/abilities cares to do the replacement for
all other pages?
-- 
Didi



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