News: picoFeed not maintained

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• [x] I have read the CONTRIBUTING.md and followed the provided tips
  https://github.com/miniflux/picoFeed

Explain the Problem

What problem did you encounter?
PicoFeed is not maintained anymore and this project is using it.
Maybe this is not that relevant but i wanted to have it mentioned here

Steps to Reproduce

Explain what you did to encounter the issue

1. Go to https://github.com/miniflux/picoFeed
2. Read the readme.md
3. ?

System Information

• News app version: maybe all?
  (i think the others are not really relevant)

[BernhardPosselt]

I'm just letting you know that this app is not maintained anymore either ;)

[rugk]

What, hu? Why? Can't you alos disable the NextCloud bot for translation updates. This makes no sense for a not maintained app.

[SMillerDev]

@BernhardPosselt Before I invest in porting to the most popular option on packagist (SimplePie) what's the reason you dumped SimplePie back then? And do you have any personal opinions on replacements?

[BernhardPosselt]

It is unmaintained, broken and the API is horrible. I'd highly recommend against using SimplePie. It's only popular because it's used in Wordpress and people can't migrate off it.

[SMillerDev]

Guess I'll give Zend-Feed a shot then

[danopz]

Haven't worked with Zend-Feed yet, but I think it is a good choice to go with a well supported and tested library like a Zend lib. I thought about trying to implement this one to news, but haven't had time to look into it.
Also @JKingweb is currently implementing some new feed parser. We probably should have a look into this one.

[SMillerDev]

Currently I'm looking into a couple of options as a replacement. Currently https://github.com/alexdebril/feed-io is high on my list as a replacement. I just can't find anything that has a content scraper like picoFeed does. @BernhardPosselt I don't suppose there's statistics on how often people use that one?

[rugk]

@SMillerDev So will you take over maintenance of this app?

[JKingweb]

Fivefilters have a scraper with AGPL-licensed source code one version _several versions_ behind on BitBucket, which works mostly from a public-domain set of rules which appears to be both extensive and kept up to date.

As my application is not GPL-licensed, I had planned to write something compatible with the rule files. Consequently I haven't looked at the source code, and cannot speak to its quality or suitability.

[BernhardPosselt]

As long as XML security is ok, why not

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[SMillerDev]

Shush bot, I'm working on it

[Grotax]

As the original repo now seems gone and probably won't come back.
Should we use one of the forks until the work in #282 is done?

[SMillerDev]

I think #282 is close enough. After the bugfix release for lastModified I think we can merge it.

[Grotax]

Nice :+1:

[cwmke]

@SMillerDev: Long term will a content-scraper be added again after the switch to feed-io is complete?

[SMillerDev]

Since that's not a feature of feedIO I'm not sure if that's really feasible. I don't think of this personally as "the way a feed reader should work" so it'd be a lower priority for me for sure. I do however know that some people like the feature and require it for their workflow.

short answer, I don't know yet.

[Grotax]

Closed by #282.