generated: '2026-09-05'
method: probed
source: >-
  live probes of www.ceps.eu (2026-09-05) plus the repo's own blogs/blogs.json fetch log
  (2026-08-30)
provider: CEPS (Centre for European Policy Studies)
providerId: ceps
summary: >-
  CEPS publishes no API, and therefore no API versioning policy, deprecation policy, SLA or
  status page. What this file records is a real, dated retirement of the one machine-readable
  surface CEPS used to serve: the site-wide WordPress RSS feed. It is kept so a later pass can
  see the change rather than re-discover it.
versioning:
  scheme: none
  policy_url: null
  note: No API, so no versioning scheme is published.
deprecation:
  policy_url: null
  sunset_header: false
  deprecation_header: false
  note: >-
    No RFC 8594 Sunset/Deprecation signalling and no published deprecation policy. The feed
    retirement below was not announced anywhere we could find — it simply began returning 500.
sla:
  published: false
  url: null
status_page:
  published: false
  url: null
  note: >-
    No status.ceps.eu, no statuspage.io / Atlassian / Instatus tenant, and no status link in the
    site navigation or footer. No StatusPage pointer emitted.
retirements:
  - surface: Site-wide RSS feed
    url: https://www.ceps.eu/feed/
    previous_type: RSS
    observed_status: 500
    observed: '2026-09-05'
    body: >-
      WordPress wp_die error document — "No feed available, please visit the homepage!" —
      served as XML with <status>500</status>.
    corroboration: >-
      blogs/blogs.json in this repo records the same host failing on 2026-08-30 for both
      https://www.ceps.eu/feed/ and https://www.ceps.eu/events/, with post_count 0.
    also: >-
      robots.txt additionally carries "Disallow: /feed/" and "Disallow: /*/feed/", so even a
      working feed would be off-limits to a well-behaved crawler.
    consequence: >-
      The RSS pointer previously carried in apis.yml common[] and in the publications API entry
      was a false claim and has been removed. This is the surface CEPS most cheaply could
      restore — a working feed is the whole of its programmable posture.
  - surface: Events listing page (old path)
    url: https://www.ceps.eu/events/
    observed_status: 404
    observed: '2026-09-05'
    replaced_by: https://www.ceps.eu/ceps-events/
  - surface: News listing page (old path)
    url: https://www.ceps.eu/news/
    observed_status: 404
    observed: '2026-09-05'
    replaced_by: https://www.ceps.eu/ceps-news/
  - surface: Privacy policy (old path)
    url: https://www.ceps.eu/privacy-policy/
    observed_status: 404
    observed: '2026-09-05'
    replaced_by: https://www.ceps.eu/about-ceps/data-privacy-policy/
    note: >-
      All three moved when CEPS re-platformed onto its current WordPress theme; the old paths
      return the site 404 template ("Page not found — CEPS") with no redirect.
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com