What is the URL of the page with the issue?
https://go.dev/blog/feed.atom
What is your user agent?
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:129.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/129.0
Screenshot
n/a
What did you do?
- Download an Atom feed
What did you expect to see?
<author></author> for an entry that has same value as an author of corresponding article.
Example:
- https://go.dev/blog/go1.23 has an author "Dmitri Shuralyov, on behalf of the Go team"
- atom entry with <author><name>Dmitri Shuralyov</name></author>
What did you see instead?
Atom entry for https://go.dev/blog/go1.23 contains <author><name/></author>
atom specs has the following:
- A feed may have multiple author elements. A feed must contain at least one author element unless all of the entry elements contain at least one author element.
- <author> and <contributor> describe a person, corporation, or similar entity. It has one required element, name, and two optional elements: uri, email.
- <name> conveys a human-readable name for the person.
So, in conclusion, feed.atom doesn't follow the spec.
While <entry> elements do have <author> elements and technically <name> is filled, it is filled by nothing which is not "a human-readable name for the person"
Comment From: cagedmantis
Comment From: gopherbot
Change https://go.dev/cl/605537 mentions this issue: internal/blog: populate author names in feeds
Comment From: gudvinr
Works for me.
I'd rather have something more compact, like "Sir Lancelot (Go team)" or just "Sir Lancelot" since it's "Go team" blog anyway, but better than nothing.
Comment From: ansaba
Closing it as the issue has been resolved.