Hi Luca, On Tue, Oct 04, 2011 at 10:55:03AM +0200, Luca Capello wrote: > > Is there any interest in automating this (in this case I will come back > with a patch) or is the manual intervention needed for a specific > reason? > Yep, I admit that is very annoying. I was working on something to automating the addition of "past_event" tag: the idea is a super simple Perl script which compare today (as per `date +%Y`or unix time, or using DateTime module) and s/events/past_events/ where today > eventdate. The problem is how manage the sync of the translations to have also them marked as past events: I suppose that we could simply call smart_change.pl into the same script, after comparing dates, so doing all the tagging thing in one round. But then, I was stopped in deploying this simply because I really didn't know if it's ok to allow the script to commit this kind of changes and doing it automatically (ie via a cron job). We talked about it a little bit on IRC (on #debian-www) last month, and if I remember correctly there weren't objections to do this (and Damyan gave me some useful hints) so I'd say that your help in this is *really really welcome*! ;) Let me know if you want to take a look at the incomplete piece of script I already have or if you prefer to write something ex-novo. Cheers, Francesca -- "People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint is more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly, timey wimey... stuff." The Doctor
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