$ hg ci
abort: cannot commit over an applied mq patch
$ hg qpop
abort: local changes found, refresh first

Obviously, I just need to RTFM, but I still find this amusing in an existential sort of way.

(If I write a replacement for mq, please shoot me. I have too many things to do already.)

This is is a wonderful metaphor: "looking in the fridge every few minutes and hoping that something tasty will appear".

I may be thick, but Planet does not appear to store any information about how often a feed ought to be polled (my blog seems to be hit every 20 minutes even when I'm AWOL). I use rawdog, which does.

When adding a feed, I make a vague guess at how often I want to poll it, and then periodically adjust the time based on how often updates actually happened. This is done with a terrible, awful, ugly hack that reads the database[1] and spits out the config file with new-and-improved times. Pretty dumb, but good enough "for now" (apparently I haven't touched it in over a year).

rawdog will also automatically update feed locations if given a 301. Since it already rewrites the config for that, I might try to merge time updating into the core someday, but no one has demanded such a feature AFAIK.