Planet Venus having issues with Wordpress

[Shaun McDonald]

Hi

See bellow.

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On 6 Sep 2008, at 00:19, "Sam Ruby" <rubys at intertwingly.net> wrote:

> 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.

I have been having problems with the links to some wordpress feeds on http://blogs.openstreetmap.org/ 
  . This can be both the link to the blog on the right and individual  
blog posts both in the feed and and on the page.

This weekend I plan to upgrade to planet Venus to see if that helps  
unless anyone has any better ideas.

On another topic I have been asked to provide multiple planet feeds,  
such as language specific or having one less feed so that it doesn't  
include all the newbie "I've just found this project" blog posts in  
the user diaries. Has anyone done this before?

Shaun