Planet Venus having issues with Wordpress

[Sam Ruby]

On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 3:33 PM, Steve Van Bruwaene
<steve.vanbruwaene at iteams.ca> wrote:
> I've had planet Venus working great for quite some time now.
>
> As I'm coming back holidays I noticed that my planet system hasn't been
> updated since August 12.  After further investigation, I've found that the
> update process crashes if there are any feeds from wordpress.com.  I've
> tried both RSS and Atom feeds from wordpress.com, and get the same thing.  I
> have one feed from an older installation of wordpress that works fine
> though.  I assume from this that Wordpress.com updated something in their
> feed system on Aug. 12 that is now breaking planet venus.

I'm subscribed to quite a number of wordpress.com feeds (all Atom),
and have seen no problems.  One thing you can do to debug this is to
try the following from the command line:

python tests/reconstitute.py http://davanum.wordpress.com/feed/atom/

What this program does, under the covers, is create a temporary
config.ini with just one feed in it, processes it normally (fetching,
caching, etc), produces a single output: a normalized feed of the
results, then cleans up all the temporary files.

If there is a consistent problem with wordpress feeds, this should
reproduce the problem.  If you can provide the URL of a feed that so
fails, I'll try to debug it further.

- Sam Ruby