Merge branch 'master' into tova

3 files changed, 34 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/doc/bugs/entirely_negated_pagespec_matches_internal_pages.mdwn b/doc/bugs/entirely_negated_pagespec_matches_internal_pages.mdwn
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..012fcec2c
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+++ b/doc/bugs/entirely_negated_pagespec_matches_internal_pages.mdwn
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+A [[PageSpec]] that is entirely negated terminals, such as "!foo and !bar"
+matches all other pages, including all internal pages. This can lead to
+unexpected results, since it will match a bunch of recentchanges pages,
+etc.
+
+Recall that internal-use pages are not matched by a glob. So "*" doesn't
+match them. So if the pagespec is "* and !foo and !bar", it won't match
+them. This is the much more common style.
+
+There's an odd inconsistency with entirely negated pagespecs. If "!foo"
+matches page bar, shouldn't "" also match bar? But, the empty pagespec is
+actually special-cased to not match anything.
+
+Indeed, it seems what would be best would be for "!foo" to not match any
+pages, unless it's combined with a terminal that positively matches pages
+("* and !foo"). Although this would be a behavior change, with transition
+issues.
+
+Another approach would be to try to detect the case of an entirely negated
+pagespec, and implicitly add "and !internal()" to it.
+
+Either approach would require fully parsing the pagespec. And consider cases
+like "!(foo and !bar)". Doesn't seem at all easy to solve. --[[Joey]]
diff --git a/doc/todo/comment_by_mail.mdwn b/doc/todo/comment_by_mail.mdwn
index 085c4896f..6d3eeb044 100644
--- a/doc/todo/comment_by_mail.mdwn
+++ b/doc/todo/comment_by_mail.mdwn
@@ -46,8 +46,8 @@ Any comments? Write them here or send them to [[DavidBremner]]
 >> as a "moderation" interface.  After I killed a debian BTS entry with 
 >> clumsy pseudoheader editing I think any 
 >> reference info should also be encoded into the address.
->>> Although it is in python, just from reading the Debian ITP, it 
->>> looks like 
->>> [mnemosyne-blog](http://www.red-bean.com/~decklin/mnemosyne/)  
->>> might be an interesting backend to use or at least steal ideas 
->>> from :-)  --[[DavidBremner]]
+
+The current version of this plugin is now running on my home page. See for example
+[a recent post in my blog](http://www.cs.unb.ca/~bremner/blog/posts/can-i-haz-a-distributed-rss/).  
+Unfortunately although the [[mailbox|todo/mbox]] renderer supports threading, I haven't had 
+a chance to implement comments on comments yet. [[DavidBremner]]
diff --git a/doc/todo/softlinks.mdwn b/doc/todo/softlinks.mdwn
index 1e474185f..af99a9f82 100644
--- a/doc/todo/softlinks.mdwn
+++ b/doc/todo/softlinks.mdwn
@@ -4,3 +4,9 @@ The page "foo/" does not exist.
 This is too bad, because sometimes it is convenient to have several different names for the same page.
 
 Could softlinks be handled gracefully by ikiwiki?
+
+> Soft links are explicitly not handled by IkiWiki as a [[security]] measure.  If you want several names for
+> the same page, I suggest using the [[ikiwiki/directive/meta]] directive to make one page redirect to
+> another.  -- [[Will]]
+
+>> Will is right. I don't plan to support symlinks. [[done]] --[[Joey]]