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The new feed aggregator for blogs.osm.org

Home Page: http://planet-osm.shaunmcdonald.me.uk/

Ruby 13.77% Shell 2.63% CSS 71.14% JavaScript 12.46%

blogs.osm.org's Introduction

#OpenStreetMap Blogs listing Code for blogs.osm.org

Intro

Main scripts for updating the OSM blogs instance running on the pluto software.

Requirements

Install the ruby requirements (assuming bundler is already installed)

bundle install

Initial build

Run the following command to build the site for the first time:

pluto build -t osm -o build

The site will be built into the build folder using the osm template. The information about the feeds is stored in an SQLite database in the file planet.db, which is kept out of git.

Subsequent updates

Thereafter you run the smaller update command each say hour:

pluto update

You need to run the build command each time there is an update of theme, or list of planet feeds.

Theme

The OSM theme is avilable in the theme folder, thus is available by default. You can check this by running

pluto list

The theme was started by taking the blank template, and also merging in the feeds template

To update the CSS in the theme, update the Sass, as documented at the start of the relevant file.

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blogs.osm.org's Issues

Suggestion: Use "New" (Standard) Planet Configuration Format , that is, INI instead of YML

Hello,
Sorry to tell you that the yaml configuration format is deprecated (not recommend). Why? It's usually easier to use the INI format. I invite you to change the planet.yml to planet.ini. For example, convert

 title: OpenStreetMap Blogs

 shaun_mcdonald:
   title: Shaun McDonald
   link: http://blog.shaunmcdonald.me.uk/
   feed: http://blog.shaunmcdonald.me.uk/feed/
   twitter: smsm1

 mapbox:
   title: Mapbox Blog
   link: https://www.mapbox.com/blog/
   feed: https://www.mapbox.com/blog/blog.rss
   twitter: mapbox

 title=OpenStreetMap Blogs

 [shaun_mcdonald]
   title=Shaun McDonald
   link=http://blog.shaunmcdonald.me.uk/
   feed=http://blog.shaunmcdonald.me.uk/feed/
   twitter=smsm1

 [mapbox]
   title=Mapbox Blog
   link=https://www.mapbox.com/blog/
   feed=https://www.mapbox.com/blog/blog.rss
   twitter=mapbox

Should not take more than a couple of minutes. If I can be of any help let me know. Cheers.

massive images

A lot of blogs and diaries seem to feed MASSIVE images. I presume that's because source blogs generally will scale down a big image (or get the browser to do so) ...but blogs.osm.org does not

Images don't show

There are now images in the full html page, or the RSS feed.

Suggestion: Delete Rakefile

Hello,
FYI: Just a minor issue: Looking at the repo it looks like the Rakefile has no purpose. Why keep it around? May I suggest deleting it to avoid confusion. Cheers.

Author information missing

Missing from the RSS feeds and the main page. It exists in the previous planetplanet software.

Feed owner email and name defined in config

The feed owner email and name should be in the config, rather than hard coded:

https://github.com/smsm1/blogs.osm.org/blob/master/theme/opml.xml.erb

Date the feed list was last updated

So that we have the correct last updated date for the OPML feed.
http://planet-osm.shaunmcdonald.me.uk/planet.opml.xml

https://github.com/smsm1/blogs.osm.org/blob/master/theme/opml.xml.erb

">" html entity escaping in titles

minor thing I just noticed.
This diary title comes though slightly wrong on blogs.osm.org We see ">" instead of ">" (double escaped I guess). This might actually be bug in the RSS feed from the OSM diaries. Not sure if the problem only applies to titles or the body text too.

Date all the feeds were last updated

It would be useful to have the date that all the feeds were last updated. It exists on the old planetplanet version.