I don’t know if this is intentional, but to me it feels counter-intuitive: When I’m posting a topic from shared drafts to a category that has Make new topics wikis by default enabled, it does not get posted as a wiki.
Edit: Also, no emails are sent to mailing list mode users when posting from shared drafts.
This is either a #bug, or a #feature request. I think it’s a bug, but I’ll resist the urge to recategorize.
I think it’s a bug as well but needed a second opinion. Recategorized.
I now tried timed topic publication and the result is the same, if not worse.
When I initially post the topic to a private category, mailing list mode gets triggered (for the users that have access to the category), which is expected. When the topic gets auto-published later to a public category, no mailing list emails are sent, though. Also, no watching first post emails get sent either - and I think that’s different from publishing from Shared Drafts.
I haven’t tested posting a timed topic to a wiki category.
Reviewing the code for this, I think the cleanest solution would be if we could have the publishing create a new topic w/ same content instead of trying to reuse the same topic ID. There’s a lot of logic in lib/{post,topic}_creator and keeping all that logic in sync seems doomed to fail.
Is there any requirement currently to keep the same topic ID on publishing?
It was nice to keep the ID the same, but if you think it would be cleaner to re-create the topic we can do that. We must remember to remove the old topic though, and it would be great if a permalink could be set up to redirect any links to the old topic to the new one.