Disable the News XML sitemaps

[jonoaldersonwp]

The XML sitemaps at the following URLs are empty, and as such should be disabled.

​https://wordpress.org/news-sitemap.xml
​https://wordpress.org/news/news-sitemap.xml
​https://wordpress.org/showcase/news-sitemap.xml

[dd32]

Since this is a Jetpack feature, can you please report this upstream to Jetpack?

Additionally, I'm not convinced that disabling these specifically is worth the effort, including a reference of some form that an empty sub-sitemap is detrimental to the purpose of including it in the first place?

[dd32]

In 10258:

Robots: remove some hard-coded sitemap links.

Additionally, temporarily disable the news sitemap when no published posts are present until an upstream determination is made.

See #5438.

[dd32]

Just noting that [10258] is not intended on lasting. I'm going to remove that if this isn't reported to Jetpack too.

[jonoaldersonwp]

Jetpack has a much larger footprint than dot org, and myriad other use-cases. As a general 'fix', this isn't appropriate to the whole of Jetpack. It's appropriate to dot org.

[dd32]

In 10269:

WordPress.org: Don't remove the Jetpack News sitemap.

The empty sitemap being linked in the robots.txt isn't a significant issue, isn't invalid, and can be fixed upstream if needed.

Fixes #5438.