886485 - "Recent Activity for My Add-ons" feed does not validate

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(addons.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Developer Pages, defect)

Description

[Denis Lisov]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20130624 Firefox/24.0 (Nightly/Aurora)
Build ID: 20130624031040

Steps to reproduce:

Load my private RSS feed https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/developers/feed?privaterss=<feed_id>
Get the raw RSS with "View source"
Validate at http://validator.w3.org/feed/#validate_by_input


Actual results:

This feed does not validate.

    line 2, column 500: Undefined description element: a (28 occurrences) [help]
        ... n-US/developers/feed</link><description><a href="/en-US/firefox/addon/di ...
                                                     ^

In addition, interoperability with the widest range of feed readers could be improved by implementing the following recommendations.

    line 2, column 279: Self reference doesn't match document location [help]
        ... a.org/en-US/developers/feed" rel="self"></atom:link><language>en-US</lan ...
                                                     ^

    line 2, column 641: item should contain a guid element (20 occurrences) [help]
        ... gest/">Digest</a> written.</description></item><item><title>Review 47907 ...


Expected results:

The feed should be valid.
Ideally the interoperability recommendations should also be followed. As the feed has no GUIDs, feed readers are unable to detect that some items have already been read as duplicates are possible in the feed.

Comment 1

[Luís Miguel [:quicksaver] (not reading bugmail)]

Could this be the reason for bug 966309?

Comment 3

[Wil Clouser [:clouserw]]

Thanks for filing this.  Due to resource constraints we are closing bugs which we won't realistically be able to fix.  If you have a patch that applies to this bug please reopen.

For more info see http://micropipes.com/blog/2014/09/24/the-great-add-on-bug-triage/