[MCHANGES-467] FeedGenerator.export does not know encoding

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Elliotte Rusty Harold opened MCHANGES-467 and commented

The use of a writer instead of an output stream in FeedGenerator,.export means that we don't know the encoding and can't set it in the feed, which we should.

Deprecate this method and replace it with one that takes an OutputStream and sets the encoding to an explicit UTF-8 which in 2025 is the only one we should use anyway.

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• GitHub Pull Request #118
  

[jira-importer]

Michael Osipov commented

Support for feeds has been removed in other plugins, we should drop it here as well.

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Elliotte Rusty Harold commented

Please file an issue for that then, though I'm not sure it's a good idea. RSS feeds for the changes plugin feel like a useful feature to me, less so some of the other plugins.