[Jamwiki-devel] Proposed patch: Coalesce edits by the same topic and user in recent changes tab

[Audrius M. <aud...@me...>]

The proposed patch joins together edits by the same user and topic in 
the recent changes list, displaying them as one.

Many people have difficulties in committing edits in one change. They 
make an edit, read for a few minutes, then apply one change, and after 
some time another one, and more. With more users and activity this 
quickly clutters the recent changes page. Usually moderators are not 
much interested in these intermediate edits and prefer to see the final 
difference made by the particular contributor.

The proposed alteration of RecentChangesServlet shows different edits 
only as long as the topic or the user is different. Multiple continuos 
edits by the same user and topic are considered the same.

To create this the patch, I have merged in the 
ServletUtil.buildVirtualWikiLinks call that is from the later versions 
than Ultrastudio.org has been forked and changed the visibility to of 
handleJamWikiRequest (kinda used to be protected?). This code initially 
belonged to Ultrastudio.org and worked fine there for a long time. For 
peace of mine I have made a test build and deployment of the modified 
version, seems working as expected.

The patch is against the current trunk.

Audrius