Blog name: Acquia.com - Drupal Blog
Drupal-Planet tagged feed URL: https://www.acquia.com/feeds/planet-drupal.xml

The Acquia.com Drupal Blog is a sub-set of the larger Acquia.com Blog which focuses on Drupal specific content for community members, site managers and content editors. We will start publishing more specific Drupal content very soon as we build out even more great content.

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mwetmore created an issue. See original summary.

avpaderno’s picture

Status: Active » Needs review
mwetmore’s picture

Hi apaderno, do you need anything else from us to get this approved and added to Planet Drupal? Thanks!

bramdriesen’s picture

Status: Needs review » Needs work

Hi @mwetmore

Unfortunately the feed currently does not meet all requirements to be added to Planet Drupal. -> https://www.drupal.org/drupalorg/docs/content/planet-drupal#s-how-youget...

There is currently only one article which would qualify for Planet Drupal. The other one is too old.

Other things which are OK:
- Feed validation tested by @apaderno
- Content is trimmed
- Images are not relative URL's
- Content itself is ok

Maybe an exception can be made it being Acquia @apaderno 😉

mwetmore’s picture

Totally fair @BramDriesen! I will connect with our content team on Tuesday and make sure some of the articles are more recent. I didn't see a requirement in https://www.drupal.org/drupalorg/docs/content/planet-drupal#s-how-youget... that was based on how old the content is, but totally understand. We have a lot more to publish we didn't want to spam that feed on our first submission.

bramdriesen’s picture

You only need 2 recent ones 😉 so I guess if you already have some posts queued it's not a lot of work.

mwetmore’s picture

Hi @BramDriesen, nope not a ton of work at all! We've added a new Drupal for eCommerce article into the feed, hopefully this is good to go now.

bramdriesen’s picture

Status: Needs work » Reviewed & tested by the community

I checked the feed again and we indeed have 3 articles now. So it's ready to go!

avpaderno’s picture

Assigned: Unassigned » avpaderno
Status: Reviewed & tested by the community » Fixed

I added the feed to Planet Drupal (https://www.drupal.org/aggregator/sources/2045).

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed - issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.

ressa’s picture

Hi, I am a Planet Drupal reader and have noticed that many posts on https://www.drupal.org/planet don't include an image, because relative image paths are used in the feed, and not absolute paths.

I have not checked your web site, but just want to highlight this recommendation from https://www.drupal.org/drupalorg/docs/content/planet-drupal to make sure we get more images on Planet Drupal:

It is strongly recommended that you avoid relative URLs to images in your posts. They won't display for people reading your post on drupal.org and is generally discouraged.

Have a nice day!

avpaderno’s picture

Status: Closed (fixed) » Needs work

I am changing status, since what reported in the previous comment should be addressed.

ressa’s picture

Thanks @apaderno. I went through 30 issues, and then stopped, because I didn't want to clog the system with comments. But I might carry on, since it seems like you think it's a good idea, to follow up on the image path status.

Should we consider tightening the requirements, and make it "practically required" to use absolute image paths, not just "strongly recommended" on https://www.drupal.org/drupalorg/docs/content/planet-drupal? Also, we could even require an image, to spice things up?

Today, Planet Drupal is literally a wall of text of 20 blog posts with zero images.

avpaderno’s picture

I take that the reason why that is not a stronger requirement is that it is difficult to know how an article appears on Planet Drupal before adding the feed to Planet Drupal.
For example, an article added to Planet Drupal could be truncated before the images. In this case, the images can also use relative URLs, but that does not influence how the article is shown on Planet Drupal.

avpaderno’s picture

Actually, on Planet Drupal (https://www.drupal.org/aggregator/sources/2045), articles are truncated before the images. The images are not shown because relative URLs, but because the articles on Planet Drupal do not contain them.

ressa’s picture

Thanks for clearing that up @apaderno.

It would be awesome if the text in the description field could get expanded, so that images were included. We need more images on Drupal Planet.

And about images and truncation -- the solution could simply be to move up the image closer to the top, so that it got included in the description, or create a customized format for the description field in the XML feed, as far as I see it.

avpaderno’s picture

Keep in mind that what shown on Planet Drupal should be a summary of the article available on their sites. Each article should not "monopolize" the pages shown on https://www.drupal.org/planet and images would take away much of the available space.

avpaderno’s picture

Status: Needs work » Fixed
avpaderno’s picture

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)