Bug: AU news curated content collection doesn't exist

[bryophyta]

We fetch curated content for 'Onwards' containers using a hard-coded list of collection ids. This includes au-alpha/news/regular-stories. But there is no collection with that id in the current PROD fronts config, so no data is fetched for Australian news articles.

UK edition has two containers, as it should

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/aug/31/federal-icac-independents-want-safeguards-to-ensure-body-cannot-be-politicised

AU edition only has one container, when it should have two

This collection id does exist in the CODE fronts config, so my guess is that it has been removed from PROD at some point (rather than it being a typo or something). If this is correct, we probably need an editorial decision about which collection to use instead for AU/News curated content.

nb. This is a bug both in the existing site and in the new curated content agent that's being created at the moment. If we get a new id, it should just be a one-line change in either codebase, however.

If we're going to talk to editorial about this, it may also be worth exploring whether there are any options which would allow us to avoid relying on a hard-coded list of ids altogether.

[Georges-GNM]

@AshCorr think you mentioned in a recent tools catchup you were looking at this?

[bryophyta]

@AshCorr sorry I can't believe that when we were pairing on this the other day I'd totally forgotten I'd opened this issue! 🤦

[AshCorr]

This should be fixed now! but perhaps we want to keep this ticket for discussing how we improve onwards?

guardian/dotcom-rendering#6549

[Georges-GNM]

Hey both, not familiar enough with onwards to have a sense of how much work there might be in improving it, but I'm inclined to suggest creating a new ticket (or maybe an rfc/doc) for that, and this one can be closed?

[bryophyta]

@Georges-GNM sounds good! Tbh there are a few different issues in this area. I don't think we've got a ticket for the issue which underlies this particular bug though, so I'll create one now.

[Georges-GNM]

Thanks @bryophyta! Will close this ticket then. (edit: didn't see you'd already done it)

[bryophyta]

new issue created here: guardian/dotcom-rendering#6732