4.4.0 release status - aftermath

[Nick Schermer]

2007/1/22, Brian J. Tarricone <bjt23 at cornell.edu>:
> Actually I looked it up in your source... there was one (empty) feed
> file, and I deleted it.
>
> Anyway, I checked the feed link *before* deleting it, and it seemed to
> work fine.  Is there a specific URL that's not working?

What do you mean? We're talking about the blog headlines on the
frontpage of the website, right?

This is how the script works:
- Download feed from blog.xfce.org
- Cache the file in /tmp/sitefeed_<hash>
- Parse the feed, create html etc etc.

When the next user visits the website, we check if there is a cached
version of the file (and not older then 1800 seconds): if so, start
parsing.
When the script was not allowed (are able) to download the feed from
blog.xfce.org (like we had today, when mocha was down), the sitefeed_
file will be empty, script aborts and the "Developers feed temporarily
unavailable." message is shown.

This is basically show the code works, so maybe there is something
wrong with downloading the blog feed or while parsing it. But you can
see this when you remove the /tmp/sitefeed_ file and then hit f5 in
your browser (make user you're the 1st user after the delete), there
might be some useful warnings printed.

Btw. What php version is the server using? It works on the latest php
4 version, but they change the parsing stuff sometimes between minor
releases.

Nick

PS. i'm not able to reply by mail tomorrow, so that's why i explained
how the script works. but probably you've already figured that out..
duno... just to make sure.