1410138 - RSS feed is down

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(developer.mozilla.org Graveyard :: General, defect, P1)

Description

[Stephanie Hobson [:shobson]]

A Discourse user reports that RSS feeds have been down for 9 days. Sounds like AWS fallout.

More questions can be directed at the userr here:
https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/rss-feed-is-down/20632

Comment 1

[ziyunfei]

thanks

Comment 2

[John Whitlock [:jwhitlock]]

The feed URLs are not working:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/feeds/json/all
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/feeds/rss/all
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/feeds/atom/all

I've confirmed this works on the old server, so it's a side effect from moving to AWS. It also works in local development, so it might be a quirk of the production deployment. This may have the same root cause as our red vs blue favicon.

Comment 3

[John Whitlock [:jwhitlock]]

Some feeds are now working, such as the original reported feed:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/feeds/json/all

I'm not sure what fixed it. It could be some general improvements in the AWS infrastructure. It could be the improved query in https://github.com/mozilla/kuma/pull/4463. Feeds often trip the AmbiguousTimeError in bug 1173189, so a problematic entry could have fallen off the feed.

With the recent Daylight Savings Time change, we are having our yearly AmbiguousTimeError issues. I think it may be possible to avoid them breaking feeds.

Comment 4

[John Whitlock [:jwhitlock]]

Root-cause fixed in bug 1173189.