Ping deprecated

[koutoftimer]

https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2023/06/sitemaps-lastmod-ping

tasks.GenerateSitemap now throws

HTTP Error 404: Sitemaps ping is deprecated. See https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2023/06/sitemaps-lastmod-ping.

[jeffbowen]

Until this gets removed you can set STATICSITEMAPS_PING_GOOGLE to False in your settings.py.

[Akay7]

I made a pr https://github.com/xaralis/django-static-sitemaps/pull/79

Until this gets removed you can set STATICSITEMAPS_PING_GOOGLE to False in your settings.py.

It wont help at latest Django 5 because there's an import https://github.com/xaralis/django-static-sitemaps/blob/dd4dc66da78bd9f394eb8689eff3c406e3c45499/static_sitemaps/generator.py#L14 of ping_google that doesn't exist anymore at Django.

[koutoftimer]

@Akay7 I guess, it is good "first PR": just to wrap that import into if condition and, probably, add some tests.

[Akay7]

I guess, it is good "first PR": just to wrap that import into if condition

There's no needs to ping google because that endpoint is deprecated on google side. And if there's no endpoint then there's no things to ping even with older version of Django.

and, probably, add some tests.

It's about removing functionality, in this case I should have removed the tests rather than writing them.

[mpasternak]

+1 for @Akay7 fix, is there a maintainer around? @xaralis maybe?

[xaralis]

Released as v5.0.0, thanks @Akay7 . Sorry for the delay, tons of other stuff. https://pypi.org/project/django-static-sitemaps/5.0.0/