Wellington City Council are doing some really good work with their online petitions.
They even do RSS feeds of the current petitions. There’s a small enhancement they could make to these feeds.
Hello.
I’ve been following the e-petitions section of the WCC site.
First, let me say that it is a really forward looking thing for the council
to be trying and it’s been really well implemented.I’d like to suggest the following enhancement to the RSS feed of current petitions, if possible.
Currently the petitions RSS feed seems to set the publication date field of all items to some time in November 2007.
If you’ve subscribed to this feed, new petitions don’t show up near the top of the feed reader’s inbox.
Would it be possible for the pubDate field to be populated with each petitions start date?ie.
http://www.wellington.govt.nz/news/current_petitions.xml
<pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2007 00:00:00 +1300</pubDate>Regards, Tony McCrae.
Outcome
This change was made by WCC’s Webcentre team within 24 hours. Thanks guys; that’s a brilliant turn around time.
