So I opened
http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XWIKI-1018
with a patch that allowed for excluding pages from the RSS feed in a
manner similar to Panels.Navigation (i.e. edit the WebRssCode page to
remove pages and spaces).
Vincent came back with:
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Thanks Paul. I looked at the patch and I have one issue with it: what
about users who want to see those pages/spaces?
For example, I rely on my RSS feed to verify
xwiki.org every day and I
want to see if someone tags/modifies one of those pages.
Also I think most if not all admins will want to see them. I'd rather we
have a more generic solution. Some ideas:
* A RSS wizard that lets users pick what they want to see
* Possibly also some special tag (like "norss") that removes pages
* tagged with it from the RSS feed
At the very least I think we should modify the patch to let admins have
a RSS feed of all files.
"""
Now the wizard idea is pretty much covered by
http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Code/PersonalRSSFeedApplication
and I think the norss tag idea has some merit but a way still needs to
be made to block out entire spaces (for example XWiki).
I tried adding "$hasadmin" to the code as that seems like the simplest
way to solve the site admins wanting to see all edits but that just
broke the feed (anyone who's more awake able to debug it?).
Another option would be to provide a third feed (but this is starting
to seem excessive to me):
* Blogs
* Pages without the admin pages
* All pages
What do others think?
Paul