I think planets now behave as they should.

[ikiwiki.git] / doc / todo / fancypodcast.mdwn

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@@ -249,6 +249,13 @@ normally no reason to do that. Why does it need an url of this form here?
 > way at the time. If you have a better idea, I'm happy to hear it;
 > if not, I'll add an explanatory comment. --[[schmonz]]
 
+>> I would be more comfortable with this if two two different forms of url
+>> you need were both generated by calling urlto. It'd be fine to call
+>> it more than once. --[[Joey]]
+
+>>> Heh, it was even easier than that! (Hooray for tests.) Done.
+>>> --[[schmonz]]
+
        +<TMPL_IF HTML5><section id="inlineenclosure"><TMPL_ELSE><div id="inlineenclosure"></TMPL_IF>
        +<TMPL_IF ENCLOSURE>
 
@@ -286,6 +293,30 @@ could negatively impact eg, Planet style aggregators using ikiwiki. --[[Joey]]
 > really prefer the old behavior (or don't want to take any chances)?
 > --[[schmonz]]
 
+>> A specific example I know of is updo.debian.net, when used with
+>> rss2email. Without the author name there, one cannot see who posted
+>> an item. It's worth noting that planet.debian.org does the same thing
+>> with its rss feed. (That's probably what I copied.) Atom feeds may
+>> not have this problem, don't know. --[[Joey]]
+
+>>> Okay, that's easy to reproduce. It looks like this _might_ be
+>>> a simple matter of getting \[[!aggregate]] to populate author in
+>>> `add_page()`. I'll see what I can figure out. --[[schmonz]]
+
+>>>> Yep, that was mostly it. If the feed entry defines an author,
+>>>> and the author is distinct from the feed name, we now show `NAME:
+>>>> AUTHOR`, else just show `NAME` (same as always). In addition,
+>>>> the W3 feed validator says `<dcterms:creator>` is invalid, so
+>>>> I replaced it with `<dc:creator>`, and all of a sudden `r2e`
+>>>> gives me better `From:` headers. With the latest on my branch,
+>>>> when I generate the same planet as updo and run `r2e` over it,
+>>>> the names I get in `From:` look like so:
+
+    "updo: Junio C Hamano"
+    "updo: Greg Kroah-Hartman"
+    "updo: Eric Raymond: esr"` (article author != feed name, so we get both)
+    "updo: Jannis Pohlman: Jannis Pohlmann"` (oops! I tweaked the real updo)
+
        +++ b/templates/rsspage.tmpl
        +       xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
        +<atom:link href="<TMPL_VAR FEEDURL>" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
@@ -295,7 +326,7 @@ every crummy rss reader on earth is going to understand this? I'd put it at
 about 0%; I doubt ikiwiki's own rss reader understands such a mashup.
 --[[Joey]]
 
-> The validator I used (<http://validator.w3.org/>, I think) told me to.
+> The validator I used (<http://validator.w3.org/feed/>) told me to.
 > Pretty sure it doesn't make anything work better in the podcatchers
 > I tried. Hadn't considered that it might break some readers.
 > Removed. --[[schmonz]]
@@ -309,3 +340,5 @@ Does this added tag provide any benefits? --[[Joey]]
 > arrived only in RSS 2.0, but that's already the version we're
 > claiming to be, and it's over a decade old. Seems much less risky
 > than the atom namespace bits. --[[schmonz]]
+
+>> Sounds ok then. --[[Joey]]