Blog RSS feed is empty

[dmathieu]

What happened?

The blog's RSS feed is empty: https://opentelemetry.io/blog/index.xml
There is a link to a feed in the blog itself: https://opentelemetry.io/blog/2024/index.xml
But that URL includes the 2024 year. There shouldn't be a need to update the feed's address every year :)

What did you expect would happen?

The RSS feed includes recent entries.

[svrnm]

Thanks @dmathieu

@chalin PTAL

[chalin]

Yes, this is a bug. The following illustrates how blog/index.xml used to contain all entries before Docsy switched to using the Hugo RSS template:

• https://deploy-preview-3795--opentelemetry.netlify.app/blog/index.xml

Docsy issue:

• Hugo's RSS template doesn't transitively include entries for all of a section's subpages google/docsy#1996

[chalin]

To all who have given a thumbs up to the above comment: please add your thumbs up to the Docsy issue instead if you'd like for it to count during the Docsy-issue review process :). Thanks!

[svrnm]

@chalin would it be possible to workaround this with a redirect? Not a perfect solution since we would need to update it once per year but maybe a workaround until the upstream issue is resolved?

[chalin]

That's worth a try. PTAL:

• Blog RSS workaround via redirect #5520

[chalin]

I'm going to close this since it was resolved by #5520. I'll be updating the feed to point to the 2025 section via:

• Create 2025 blog section and adjust redirects #5873

[chalin]

We'll integrate the "real" fix once Docsy gets updated.