Hi all, We'd like to get community input on a long-standing open issue: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-1185
The issue is a 2007 NullPointerException in RomeEventHandler, the handler behind the blog RSS feed. On current trunk the originally reported crash is already guarded, and the handler only fails now when the feed itself can't be produced. So the bug is effectively stale, and it points at a bigger question: whether we should keep this feature at all. The RSS blog feed is a small, self-contained piece: a content blog feed, surfaced through a single link on the ecommerce store. A storefront RSS feed is largely obsolete for modern e-commerce, where syndication has moved to product feeds (Google Merchant, Meta) rather than RSS. The feature is wired into the demo but appears little used, and it pulls a feed library into the framework classpath for that one purpose. Rather than hardening it, we'd like to propose removing the blog RSS feed and resolving OFBIZ-1185 as superseded by that removal. If the community would rather keep it, the RSS handler belongs in the content component rather than the framework, so at least the framework stays lean. If anyone actively uses the blog RSS feed, in content or ecommerce, please speak up. Otherwise we'd like to remove it, and let someone reopen it if interest returns. Thanks and Regards Anil Patel CEO HotWax Systems http://www.hotwaxsystems.com
