Re: Re: The Profile and the Feed Validator

Rogers Cadenhead wrote:
> 
> On 10/9/07, Sam Ruby <[email protected] 
> <mailto:rubys%40intertwingly.net>> wrote:
>  > Draft news item, conditionally scheduled to coincide with the completion
>  > of the vote:
>  >
>  > http://beta.feedvalidator.org/news/ <http://beta.feedvalidator.org/news/>
>  >
>  > These changes to the feedvalidator can go live at any time. If there is
>  > interest, I can commit the changes immediately prior to the announcement
>  > so that announcement itself can mention that the feedvalidator changes
>  > are live.
>  >
>  > As always, let me know if there are any questions or concerns.
> 
> Looks good. The "misplaced Item" link is broken; it should be to this:
> 
> http://beta.feedvalidator.org/docs/warning/MisplacedItem.html 
> <http://beta.feedvalidator.org/docs/warning/MisplacedItem.html>

Fixed.  Thanks!

> Like the other warnings, the "items with more than one enclosure"
> warning ought to lead with language from the RSS Profile, such as
> these parts:
> 
> "Support for the enclosure element in RSS software varies
> significantly because of disagreement over whether the specification
> permits more than one enclosure per item. Although the author intended
> to permit no more than one enclosure in each item, this limit is not
> explicit in the specification. ... For best support in the widest
> number of aggregators, an item SHOULD NOT contain more than one
> enclosure."
> 
> http://www.rssboard.org/rss-profile#element-channel-item-enclosure 
> <http://www.rssboard.org/rss-profile#element-channel-item-enclosure>

Done.

> If you take the changes live before the vote ends Monday morning, and
> the vote passes, I will mention the validator update in the
> announcement.

If it continues to look like the vote will pass on Sunday night, I 
commit the changes to SVN at that time, and schedule it for automated 
deployment sometime between 7:20 and 7:30 Monday morning.  Let me know 
if a different schedule would be better for you.

- Sam Ruby


 
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