Atom 1.0 comments feed? Re: [wp-hackers] WP issues

[Geoffrey Sneddon]

On 31 May 2007, at 20:52, Lloyd Budd wrote:

> On 5/31/07, Geoffrey Sneddon <foolistbar at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> 3. Why was no Atom 1.0 feed offered?
>
> I am guess that should read Atom 1.0 comments feed?

I mean any Atom 1.0 feed at all.

>
>>         a) "Aggregators I tried with the existing patch didn't
>> work."[TICKET1526] — We already offer multiple feeds to make sure
>> the UA can parse one (though in the above case, all of Photo Matt's
>> comment feeds are currently broken, and any parser that parses it is
>> broken).
>>         b) "There is no satisfactory patch available."[TICKET1526] —
>> Waiting doesn't seem to have made this much better than patches that
>> were around several years ago, see 2.
>>         c) "We have no way currently to ensure XHTML  
>> validity."[TICKET1526]
>> — See 1.
>
>> [TICKET1526]: http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1526
>
> That has a lot of information -- and I don't have the expertise to
> follow it. Maybe, a new suscinct ticket would move the issue forward?
> Of course, patches and availability to discuss on #wordpress-dev helps
> even more!

How would that help this issue? It was _finally_ fixed in 2.2, when  
Atom 1.0 support was added at the site level (the shipped comments  
feed is unusable, so it isn't really added, IMO). This is, along with  
various other points, an issue with WP's development process.


- Geoffrey Sneddon