Tópico Arquivo Automotivo Anual

[eriko]

This is the first draft of the plugin mentioned here: Anyone interested in a mass automatic archiving plugin?

Basically on a certain (configurable) day of the year all topics posted before a certain (configurable) day get marked as Archived. This happens once a year.

Example on the 120th day of the year all posts from before the 30th day of the year will get archived.

https://github.com/eriko/auto-archive

Work to do:

• Change to a list of days of the year (60, 120,180,240,300) and days afterwards to run (30)
• Figure out an interface to select categories to effect or not effect.

[meglio (Anton)]

Why would one need to mass-archive topics?

[eriko]

In our case we are a college and conversations that span over a year gather kruft of no longer valid information. It is better to begin again the fight over smoking on campus again in the context of current policies. The old conversation still exists for reference.

[codinghorror (Jeff Atwood)]

Another valid example is, a game company has a beta or alpha for a game. Three years later, the game is no longer like the beta or alpha and much different, if anyone even plays it any more? So why keep the alpha and beta categories at all…

[fefrei (Felix Freiberger)]

Another example is using Discourse as a discussion platform for a lecture or course:

Re-purposing a Discourse installation for a yearly event

I’m using Discourse for a yearly event (a preparatory course at a university), both for internal use for the organizers and for discussion among participants. This year’s event has finished, and once usage has dropped below significance, I’d be okay with shutting the installation down. Next year, however, I want to have another installation ready, and the old topics available as an archive to the organizers. This leaves multiple options, and I’m not sure what is best: Archive HTML, New Instal…

[eriko]

I found a small issue in that messages are just another form of Topics. So the code has been updated to only effect Archetype.default Topics.

[patrickemin]

Boa ideia, eu seria mais a favor de arquivar uma categoria inteira após um determinado período de tempo.

Caso de uso: uma categoria de flash de notícias.

[Jagster (Jakke Lehtonen)]

Várias categorias desatualizadas de flash de notícias Por que alguém faria uma estrutura dessas?

[patrickemin]

Não, quero dizer, arquivar as postagens de uma categoria após um certo período de tempo. As postagens em uma categoria de notícias, por exemplo, são inerentemente perecíveis, então este é um bom exemplo de uso. Uma categoria poderia ter uma propriedade de arquivamento automático.