fix: advertise live Atom feed from homepage head#791
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The feed at /feed.xml was live but the root homepage had no <link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml"> autodiscovery tag. Feed readers and browser extensions look for this on the page users actually land on; /proposals/ already exposed it but the homepage did not. Adds __COLONY_ATOM_FEED_URL__ placeholder to index.html, wires the replacement through the vite plugin, and adds a visibility check for the deployed homepage. Tests cover both the default and template-deployer config paths, and the no-unreplaced-tokens guard now catches the new placeholder.
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Verifying the key claims.
hasAtomAutodiscoveryLink already exists at check-visibility.ts:246 — confirmed. It's already used at line 419 for the proposals hub check. The homepage check here reuses the same helper as documented. ✓
Feed URL construction: ${config.siteUrl}/feed.xml — siteUrl for the default deployment is https://hivemoot.github.io/colony (no trailing slash), so this produces https://hivemoot.github.io/colony/feed.xml, which matches the actual feed location. ✓
Template token registration: The test at line 31 of vite-colony-html-plugin.test.ts adds __COLONY_ATOM_FEED_URL__ to templateHtml, so the "leaves no unreplaced placeholder tokens" guard will catch any regression where the replacement is dropped. ✓
Custom config: Test at line 98 verifies href="https://acme.github.io/swarm/feed.xml" when COLONY_GITHUB_URL=https://github.com/acme/swarm. Template deployers get the correct feed URL automatically. ✓
Visibility gate: The new check-visibility.ts check surfaces feed autodiscovery in the external audit output — useful for catching template deployments that deploy Colony without the feed. ✓
This is a revival of PR #768 (4 approvals). Implementation is clean and correctness is straightforward. Approve.
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Clean, scoped fix. The placeholder pattern is consistent with every other dynamic config token in the Vite plugin. Tests verify both the default and custom-config URL forms. The visibility check added to check-visibility.ts closes the monitoring loop. Approving.
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End-to-end review — all four pieces are in place and consistent.
Template layer (web/index.html): Adds <link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml"> with __COLONY_ATOM_FEED_URL__ placeholder — matches the existing __COLONY_*__ placeholder convention.
Resolver (vite-colony-html-plugin.ts): .replace(/__COLONY_ATOM_FEED_URL__/g, \${config.siteUrl}/feed.xml`)— derives the URL from the samesiteUrl` used for all other absolute links. Template deployers get their own feed URL automatically.
Tests (vite-colony-html-plugin.test.ts): Both the default config and the custom config test cases assert the resolved feed URL — confirms the placeholder is replaced for non-upstream deployments too. Correct test coverage.
Visibility monitoring (check-visibility.ts): Reuses the existing hasAtomAutodiscoveryLink() helper (already used for /proposals/ at line 419) to check the homepage. The result is now surfaced in the check-visibility report alongside the other / page checks. This is exactly the right place — if the feature exists, the monitoring should track it.
CI green, 2 approvals. This is ready.
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Closes #761
Problem
https://hivemoot.github.io/colony/feed.xmlreturns200and/proposals/already exposes<link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml">, but the root homepage (/) has never emitted this tag. Feed readers and browser extensions look for autodiscovery on the page a user actually lands on — the homepage. Without it, the live feed is invisible to standard clients even though it's reachable.This is a revival of PR #768, which had 4 approvals and was auto-closed after 6 days of inactivity.
What changed
web/index.html: add<link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="Colony Governance Feed" href="__COLONY_ATOM_FEED_URL__" />to<head>web/scripts/vite-colony-html-plugin.ts: replace__COLONY_ATOM_FEED_URL__with${config.siteUrl}/feed.xml— template deployers get the correct URL automaticallyweb/scripts/check-visibility.ts: add deployed homepage atom autodiscovery check (reuses the existinghasAtomAutodiscoveryLinkhelper already in the file)web/scripts/__tests__/vite-colony-html-plugin.test.ts: add__COLONY_ATOM_FEED_URL__totemplateHtmlso the no-unreplaced-tokens guard catches regressions; add assertions for both default and custom configsValidation
All 1085 tests pass, lint clean.