[Bug 470945] Create new RSS feed items for updated marketplace entries
| Bugzilla Link | 470945 |
| Status | NEW |
| Importance | P3 normal |
| Reported | Jun 25, 2015 03:34 EDT |
| Modified | Jun 25, 2020 20:02 EDT |
| See also | 470707 |
| Reporter | Johannes Dorn |
Description
As part of this years GSoC we're working on a news feed plugin that aggregates RSS feeds and displays them in Eclipse. More about this idea can be found in Bug 459911.
One of the feeds we provide is from the Marketplace [1].
We've noticed that when a marketplace entry is updated, the original item is placed back into the feed. This item has the original guid and pubDate fields, meaning that it always shows the date when the entry was originally created.
This is a problem for us in two ways:\
- the same guid means that once we mark an item as read, we don't show it as unread once there was an update.\
- More importantly, we would like to sort the updated item according to the date it was updated, not when it was created.
I believe the ideal solution would be to create new feed items for updated marketplace entries. Care should be taken though, so that multiple edits in quick succession do not result in multiple items in the feed.
Another more simple approach would be to change the pubDate whenever an entry was updated.