RSS bot pulls the oldest entries and ignores the newer/latest entries on the feed.

[laurynmm]

As reported on CZO, depending on how the RSS feed has sorted its entries (newest first or oldest first), the RSS bot integration may only pull the oldest entries and ignore newer/latest entries in the feed.

Fixing the implementation will probably involve two loops for processing feed entries:

• first, one looking for items we've not processed
• then, a second block going through those to decide what to do with them

[axllbk]

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[axllbk]

Just a quick update to say that I am still working on this!

[axllbk]

Looking to have a pull request ready by Wednesday 13/11 😊

[Niloth-p]

Hi, @axllbk! Any updates?
Feel free to put up a draft PR if you're almost there but not quite :)

[TusharMohapatra07]

Hey, Is this issue being worked on ? If not, i'd love to work on it CC: @Niloth-p @laurynmm

[Niloth-p]

@TusharMohapatra07 I do have a couple of local WIP branches, but I haven't looked at it in a few weeks.
I think it was mostly functional, but I probably need to clean up the code, organize the commit order perhaps.
Would you be interested in picking up such a branch and taking it to completion?
I might take a few days to get back to this otherwise.

[Eeshu-Yadav]

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[Eeshu-Yadav]

Hi @Niloth-p , I see that this issue is currently assigned to @axllbk. However, if they are unable to continue with it, I would be happy to pick it up and work on it. Could you please consider assigning it to me? I'd love to help get this resolved!

[Niloth-p]

@Eeshu-Yadav Did you miss this message in this thread?
I don't have the permission to re-assign folks. You can just proceed with your contribution and create a PR, without waiting to be assigned to the issue.