Tue Aug 23 23:54:36 UTC 2005  Alberto Bertogli <albertogli@telpin.com.ar>
  * Add author information in the RSS feed.
  Thanks to Remko Troncon for the initial implementation; this is basically the
  same with the logic simplified a bit.
diff -rN -u old-darcsweb/darcsweb.cgi new-darcsweb/darcsweb.cgi
--- old-darcsweb/darcsweb.cgi	2016-01-22 22:52:50.000000000 +0000
+++ new-darcsweb/darcsweb.cgi	2016-01-22 22:52:51.000000000 +0000
@@ -1197,14 +1197,26 @@
 				time.localtime(p.date))
 		link = '%s/%s;a=commit;h=%s' % (config.myurl,
 				config.myreponame, p.hash)
+
+		# the author field is tricky because the standard requires it
+		# has an email address; so we need to check that and lie
+		# otherwise; there's more info at
+		# http://feedvalidator.org/docs/error/InvalidContact.html
+		if "@" in p.author:
+			author = p.author
+		else:
+			author = "%s <unknown@email>" % p.author
+
 		print """
   <item>
     <title>%(title)s</title>
+    <author>%(author)s</author>
     <pubDate>%(pdate)s</pubDate>
     <link>%(link)s</link>
     <description>%(desc)s</description>
 	   	""" % {
 			'title': escape(title),
+			'author': author,
 			'pdate': pdate,
 			'link': link,
 			'desc': escape(p.name),