Re: Malformed link from Planet GNU?

[Dora Scilipoti]

Bob writes:

> I think this must be on the planet.gnu.org side of things.  I don't
> have any acces to it.  But I scanned through the Internet Archive's
> copy of things and I see that this was the last time it was "working".
> Note the "October 07, 2017" "health @ Savannah" entry.
>
>     https://web.archive.org/web/20171014141946/https://planet.gnu.org/
>
> And the next snapshot shows the atom feed.  Look for the "March 11,
> 2018" "automake @ Savannah" entry and it is an atom feed then.
>
>     https://web.archive.org/web/20180313234855/http://planet.gnu.org/
>
> What Savannah provides is a file with a list of projects.  The
> aggregator on planet then polls the projects news feeds and scrapes
> out the new news articles and posts them to planet.
>
> > Is this intentional? I would expect a link back to the original online
> > page instead of the file.
>
> This does have the feel like an unintentional change.  I don't think
> (can't guarentee it without looking at the planet side aggregator) but
> I think this must have been a change on the aggregator side of things.
> The news article rendering on the Savannah web UI side looks the same
> to my eye but I don't know exactly what the aggregator will be
> scraping from it.  It's possible something changed in there and the
> aggregator became confused and started grabbing a different link.
>
> I don't have access to the planet0p VM.  I don't know who does.
> Pretty sure Sylvain brought the feed back online again after an
> absence in 2016 due to a note I see.  I will ask sysadmin about it
> tomorrow.


And FWIW, I noticed that Savannah feeds are not listed in config.ini.tmpl.
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/www/planet-config.git/tree/config/config.ini.tmpl


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