[OSM-dev] author tag in rss user diaries

[Andy Allan]

On Mon, 22 Mar 2021 at 16:28, Jiri Vlasak <jiri.hubacek at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Dear OSM devs,
>
> I have a question about RSS feed of user diaries. I've subscribed the
> user diaries in my RSS but there is no author displayed. When looking at
> the feed, <dc:creator> is used instead of <author>.
>
> I would like to now if this is intentiaonal, or could be changed to
> <author>?

My first thought was "sure, why not? I've no idea why we use
dc:creator anyway". Then I ran git blame on the line in question, and
found out that it was me who changed it four years ago!

https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-website/commit/5164c71646461039e5158883b36cdd6837acb000

In short, for RSS 2.0, "author" has to be a valid email address, so we
can't use that element. More information is available in the
corresponding pull request
https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/pull/1349

Thanks,
Andy