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

[Lloyd Budd]

On 5/31/07, Geoffrey Sneddon <foolistbar at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.

Sorry, I don't understand. As well as development process concerns,
does 3. describe any current technical issues?

Thank you,
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