Bug 117358

Summary: Request to change RSS feeds to include pubDate information for items
Product: Documentation Reporter: Gavin Cameron <gavin>
Component: Books & ArticlesAssignee: Murray Stokely <murray>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: Latest   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description Gavin Cameron 2007-10-20 14:40:01 UTC
The current RSS news feeds provided on the FreeBSD home page do not provide a pubDate for the items in the news feeds.

I am placing a new aggregator on the new VicFUG website and since the feeds http://www.freebsd.org/news/news.rdf and http://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories.rdf do not have the pubDate information  in the feed they do not interoperate nicely with other news feeds in the aggregated feed.

If pubDate is included the FreeBSD news will be able to be incorporated in the aggregated feed in the correct date order.

RSS 2.0 maybe the easiest solution.

I am willing to help if required.
Comment 1 Hiroki Sato freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2007-11-13 20:43:09 UTC
Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-www->hrs

I'll take this.
Comment 2 dfilter service freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2008-01-16 09:14:23 UTC
murray      2008-01-16 09:14:18 UTC

  FreeBSD doc repository

  Modified files:
    share/sgml           libcommon.xsl 
  Log:
  Add a pubDate field to the security advisory RSS 2.0 feed for better
  support in feed aggregators.
  
  PR:             www/117358
  
  Revision  Changes    Path
  1.14      +12 -3     www/share/sgml/libcommon.xsl
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Comment 3 dfilter service freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2008-01-16 09:29:21 UTC
murray      2008-01-16 09:29:17 UTC

  FreeBSD doc repository

  Modified files:
    en/java              java-rss.xsl 
    share/sgml           libcommon.xsl 
  Log:
  Add <pubDate> to each <item> for better RSS reader support.
  
  PR:             www/117358
  
  Revision  Changes    Path
  1.2       +12 -1     www/en/java/java-rss.xsl
  1.15      +22 -1     www/share/sgml/libcommon.xsl
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Comment 4 dfilter service freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2008-01-16 09:33:15 UTC
murray      2008-01-16 09:33:11 UTC

  FreeBSD doc repository

  Modified files:
    en/gnome             rss2.xsl 
  Log:
  Add <pubDate> information for each item for better feed aggregator
  support.
  
  PR:             www/117358
  
  Revision  Changes    Path
  1.3       +13 -1     www/en/gnome/rss2.xsl
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Comment 5 Murray Stokely freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2008-01-18 02:21:16 UTC
State Changed
From-To: open->closed

Thanks for the suggestion.  I've updated these two feeds to RSS 2.0 
with <pubDate>.  While doing that I've also added feeds for the java 
newsflash items and the upcoming events, which also have <pubDate> 
fields.  Thanks again. 



Comment 6 Murray Stokely freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2008-01-18 02:21:16 UTC
Responsible Changed
From-To: hrs->murray

Thanks for the suggestion.  I've updated these two feeds to RSS 2.0 
with <pubDate>.  While doing that I've also added feeds for the java 
newsflash items and the upcoming events, which also have <pubDate> 
fields.  Thanks again.
Comment 7 Gavin Cameron 2008-04-20 03:26:36 UTC
The feeds on the FreeBSD homepage still don't have the pubDate 
information in the feed and therefore
the feeds still don't play nicely with feed aggregators.

Cheers
Gavin
Comment 8 murray 2008-04-20 04:31:44 UTC
I think you are still looking at the old RSS 0.9 feeds.  The new RSS
2.0 feeds include this information as the history for this bug shows.
You can also verify this by downloading www.freebsd.org/news/rss.xml
and looking at the <pubDate> tags.  Please be more specific if you
still think something is broken.  Thanks!

           - Murray

$ telnet www.freebsd.org 80
GET /news/rss.xml HTTP/1.1
Host: www.freebsd.org

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: text/xml
Accept-Ranges: bytes
ETag: "372506325"
Last-Modified: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 22:24:32 GMT
Content-Length: 5372
Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 03:27:56 GMT
Server: httpd/1.4.x LaHonda

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<rss xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0">
  <channel>
    <title>FreeBSD News Flash</title>
    <link>http://www.FreeBSD.org/news/</link>
    <description>News from the FreeBSD Project</description>
    <language>en-us</language>
    <webMaster>freebsd-www@FreeBSD.org (Webmaster Team)</webMaster>
    <managingEditor>freebsd-www@FreeBSD.org (Webmaster Team)</managingEditor>
    <docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs>
    <ttl>120</ttl>
    <image>
      <url>http://www.FreeBSD.org/logo/logo-full.png</url>
      <title>FreeBSD News Flash</title>
      <link>http://www.FreeBSD.org/news/</link>
    </image>
    <atom:link href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/news/rss.xml" rel="self"
type="application/rss+xml"/>
    <item>
      <title>Student deadline extended for Summer of Code</title>
      <description>The deadline for student applications to
participate in the Google Summer of Code has been extended by one
week. The new deadline is Monday, April 7, 2008. If you haven't
already, please visit our FreeBSD Summer of Code page and look at the
example project ideas we've listed there, or propose your own. There
are many new ideas listed since the first announcements went
out.</description>
      <link>http://www.FreeBSD.org/news/newsflash.html#event20080331:01</link>
      <guid>http://www.FreeBSD.org/news/newsflash.html#event20080331:01</guid>
      <pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2008 00:00:00 PST</pubDate>
    </item>




On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 7:50 PM, Gavin Cameron <gavin@gcameron.org> wrote:
> The following reply was made to PR www/117358; it has been noted by GNATS.
>
>  From: Gavin Cameron <gavin@gcameron.org>
>  To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org
>  Cc:
>  Subject: Re: www/117358: Request to change RSS feeds to include pubDate information
>   for items
>  Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 12:26:36 +1000
>
>   The feeds on the FreeBSD homepage still don't have the pubDate
>   information in the feed and therefore
>   the feeds still don't play nicely with feed aggregators.
>
>   Cheers
>   Gavin
>