Update score based on age

[avanc]

Hello,

it would be great if filters can also be based on the age of an article to change the score. I know this means that the the score has to be calculated on a regular basis, not only once on import. Purge after x days does not work for me, as some articles are still interesting after that peroid of time. Some short example:

• Daily news feed: Not intersting anymore after a few days
• Security feeds of a software: Still of interest after several weeks

I'm not sure if it is actually a feature request or if I just missed the feature.

Sven

[fox]

this sounds like something best delegated to a specialized plugin

[avanc]

Thanks.
Which hook would be the best to do the task? How about HOOK_UPDATE_TASK or HOOK_HOUSE_KEEPING? Which one is executed more often?

Can you give me some hints how to query all articles and update the score? Some keywords or references to source code would be a good starting point.

[fox]

i suggest you update scores in house keeping, update task might be executed simultaneously on multiple threads. i also suggest you use batching.

rest of your questions should be immediately obvious from the database schema alone so i think you should take a look there.

[avanc]

Thanks again.
One last question before diving into coding: What do you mean with batching?

[fox]

there could be potentially millions of articles in the database, you need to process them in some discrete amounts as to not hog the database and update processes.