Add ross.ws to Planet Drupal

Thank you so much for your feedback on these issues:

• 1 & 3. At least monthly I validate my RSS feed, but at some point since the last validation, I must have inadvertently disabled the Pathologic module on the remote server. Sorry about that. I should've doublechecked before submitting this request. Now it validates: http://www.feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A//www.ross.ws/taxonomy...
• 2. Sorry, I'm not sure what you mean about a specific tag. For all of my Drupal-related content, I naturally use the taxonomy term "Drupal". I would rather not change that term to anything else, because it's clearly the ideal choice. And even if I were to change the term, the URL http://www.ross.ws/taxonomy/term/17/feed still wouldn't include the string "Planet". Or are you referring to something else? I haven't worked with RSS+taxonomy before, so is there some technique for including the taxonomy term itself in the URL, that I've never seen before, or do you mean something different?

I can certainly understand the need for limiting content to that which meets the criteria. My technical articles about Drupal clearly do. As for the reviews of Drupal books, the criteria don't specifically address that; but based upon the spirit of that first list, it sounds like they would. Before I make any changes, can I get clarification as to whether Drupal book reviews meet the criteria? Thanks!

All finished. The new Planet Drupal feed is at http://www.ross.ws/taxonomy/term/58/feed, and it validates: http://www.feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ross.ws%2Fta.... It currently comprises 27 items, and in the months ahead I will be adding more Drupal 7-specific technical articles and book reviews.

Please pardon my ignorance on this matter, because I've never before gone through the process of submitting a newsfeed to Planet Drupal. I see that, for a couple weeks, the status has been "needs review". Does that mean that I need to review something? Is there anything else that I need to do?

BrockBoland: Thanks for your comments. As for the relative URLs breaking the feed validation, that was because I was no longer bothering to enable the Pathologic module on the remote server after a full database upload, because I had largely given up on this topic. (That module breaks the URLs on my local web server, so I typically keep it disabled.) As for the comments, I didn't have them enabled for older posts, prior to my putting together this feed.

I have fixed both problems, and now the feed validates: http://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ross.ws%2Fta...

Again, thanks for your input on this. I will be writing more Drupal articles and book reviews, and including them in the feed.

Is there anything remaining that I need to do, as the next step in the process?

The W3C Feed Validation Service reports "Server returned HTTP Error 500: Service unavailable (with message)", and the help information is "Your feed couldn't be validated because there was a problem downloading it from the web server. You should try to diagnose this using a web browser, and make sure that the URL you supplied resolves to an accessible file."

Going to http://www.ross.ws/taxonomy/term/58/feed in both Google Chrome and Firefox, the feed works as expected. Also, the feed works properly in Google Reader. Does the feed load fine in your browsers as well?

If so, then the problem appears to be the validation service. I reported it to the feedvalidator-users Google group just now. I wasn't sure what to tell them concerning Drupal.org indicating a problem. Is it receiving some sort of error message that could be helpful to us/them?

Thanks for the info. The watchdog logging was causing problems, so I suspended it, and now the feed validates again. Sorry about that.

Thank you!

Yes, I too prefer being able to read all of the content within the RSS aggregator, and only going to the source site if needed. In this case, the feed settings are correct, but the content is added to the page using the PHP code text format, and apparently the code that generates RSS feeds ignores it -- at least, that's what I was told when I first looked into this a couple weeks ago. I will research this further, and try to come up with a code fix (now that the holidays are here and there is more time for personal projects like this).

All finished. The text and images are once again displayed in full.

Hello. Fortunately, no. In fact, it's never happened before. My hosting company told me several days ago that my site had been visited by so many webbots that it exceeded the maximum number of "program executions," and so they took it offline. I knew that the number of visitors to my site had been increasing every month, but I did not realize that there was this limit and that the account was close to it. Anyway, it should be back up at the beginning of next month (tomorrow), and I will be monitoring the bots to try to throttle the misbehaving ones.