x/website: /blog/feed.atom missing an author field

[gudvinr]

What is the URL of the page with the issue?

https://go.dev/blog/feed.atom

What is your user agent?

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:129.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/129.0

Screenshot

n/a

What did you do?

1. Download an Atom feed

What did you expect to see?

<author></author> for an entry that has same value as an author of corresponding article.

Example:

• https://go.dev/blog/go1.23 has an author "Dmitri Shuralyov, on behalf of the Go team"
• atom entry with <author><name>Dmitri Shuralyov</name></author>

What did you see instead?

Atom entry for https://go.dev/blog/go1.23 contains <author><name/></author>

atom specs has the following:

• A feed may have multiple author elements. A feed must contain at least one author element unless all of the entry elements contain at least one author element.
• <author> and <contributor> describe a person, corporation, or similar entity. It has one required element, name, and two optional elements: uri, email.
• <name> conveys a human-readable name for the person.

So, in conclusion, feed.atom doesn't follow the spec.
While <entry> elements do have <author> elements and technically <name> is filled, it is filled by nothing which is not "a human-readable name for the person"

[cagedmantis]

cc @golang/tools-team

[gopherbot]

Change https://go.dev/cl/605537 mentions this issue: internal/blog: populate author names in feeds

[gudvinr]

Works for me.

I'd rather have something more compact, like "Sir Lancelot (Go team)" or just "Sir Lancelot" since it's "Go team" blog anyway, but better than nothing.

[ansaba]

Closing it as the issue has been resolved.