GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 600757
www.gimp.org is in maintenance mode and broken (RSS, Wiki, ...)
Last modified: 2017-11-27 16:15:20 UTC
Suddenly my RSS reader stopped being able to read the GIMP feed. As it turns out, the feed file, located at http://www.gimp.org/news.rdf is missing. Could you restore it?
The site is currently running on a different server. This will be fixed when we switch back to the original one.
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(In reply to comment #1) > The site is currently running on a different server. This will be fixed when we > switch back to the original one. Hi, Michael Schumacher! This bug was first reported more than 3 month ago and, as I can see, still not fixed. I want to help to translate documentation to russian, but cannot access wiki.gimp.org to do that. So tell me please, is there any temporary address or any other way to access your resources? Thanks!
It's not even known at the moment if the content of the wiki is still available at all.
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Hi Schumacher and company, I reported this bug a while back and can see it hasn't been fixed...I believe I am capable of solving the feed part of the problem. As far as I can tell, the old feed source code is not in the repo for the website, and I can't really tell whether there is a database with the data, or if the html is "hard-coded" for each entry. If it's in a database, obviously the easiest way to re-create the script would be to load the data from the server. Otherwise parsing the .html document is fortunately something f.x. php excels at :-) I don't have any previous experience helping with open source projects, but I've coded many RSS feeds for websites that have lacked - purely for my personal use. I could do something similar for gimp.org and upload it to my personal server account if you want. So I guess my question is, would such an effort be appreciated, and - if so - could the server run a php script to do it (I don't see any signs of php in the source for the website). Thanks :-)
The news feeds is created from the news system, the only part of the site where any dynamic stuff is being used. Python is our language of choice. Everything else is created as static content upon changes (to the gimp-web modules in Git) - IMO the way any CMS should work, but unfortunately most don't. The problem isn't technical per se - there's currently no one with enough time and admin access to the server to fix anything that doesn't work.
But, if I where to host the feed on my server, reading the index page say...once an hour or when there's a request (whichever comes LAST), would this be appreciated or frowned upon?
There are currently no updates to the index page, so this effort would be wasted. But we could commit a news.rdf file stating that the feed is broken. Would be nice if you could create this file and attach it to the bug.
Looks like this can be resolved soon. http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/lists/gimp-web/2010-June/000911.html ff
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... and we have a news.rdf again.
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I'll resolve this as fixed, the main part of the bug - the RSS feed - is up again.