Hi Dora!
Dora Scilipoti wrote:
> submitting a news item from Savannah [1] goes to Planet GNU [2]. But
> there is no link back to [1] from Planet GNU. Instead, it's a prompt to
> download a www.atom file.
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.
Bob
