Testing and QA

I used http://feedvalidator.org/ to check the RSS coming from my Moodle 1.6dev site. It found various errors. The report was:

• line 10, column 31: managingEditor must include an email address [help]

      <managingEditor>Dan Stowell</managingEditor>
                                 ^

• line 11, column 26: webMaster must include an email address [help]

      <webMaster>Dan Stowell</webMaster>
                            ^

• line 23, column 50: pubDate must be an RFC-822 date-time [help]

        <pubDate>Thu, 16 Mar 2006 07:55:27 +22333901</pubDate>
                                                    ^

• line 26, column 0: Missing enclosure attribute: length [help]

  <enclosure url='http://www.ucl.ac.uk/is/fiso/lifesciences/test/moodlemoddev/ ...
  

In addition, this feed has issues that may cause problems for some users. We recommend fixing these issues.

• line 15, column 78: Image link doesn't match channel link [help]

        <link>http://www.ucl.ac.uk/is/fiso/lifesciences/test/moodlemoddev/mood ...
                                                                                ^

• line 27, column 4: item should contain a guid element [help]

      </item>

I was testing to see if the "enclosure" would work as a podcast feed, but iTunes rejected it so I went to the validator.

Is anyone working on this at the moment? I could fix these problems according to my own thoughts, which are:

• remove managingEditor and webmaster tags completely, since I'm reluctant to automatically include the admin email address
  
• include a guid - this is easy
• fix pubdate
• enclosure length may be tricky, but I can look into it

(BTW I'm aware of the "ipodcast" module - I just wanted to get the default forum RSS working nicely with enclosures.)