Removed xmlrpc/pingomatic ping service

[betschki]

Pingomatic is a legacy blog ping service that notified external services when posts were published. It is no longer relevant for modern SEO or content distribution.

The service was disabled by default and added unnecessary complexity to the codebase.

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Removes the obsolete XML-RPC ping service (Pingomatic) from core and config.

• Deletes server/services/xmlrpc.js and its unit tests
• Drops xmlrpc.listen() and the xmlrpc require from boot.js
• Removes privacy.useRpcPing from config.development.json

No other services or boot order affected.

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Walkthrough

The changes comprehensively remove the XML-RPC ping service functionality from the Ghost core application. This includes deleting the service initialization from the boot sequence, removing the entire XMLRPC service implementation module that handled post publication pings to external RPC endpoints, removing the associated configuration flag from the development environment config, and deleting all corresponding unit tests. The removal is complete across all affected files with no fallback mechanisms or migration logic.

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Description check	✅ Passed	The description explains the rationale for removing the obsolete Pingomatic service and its complexity; it directly relates to the changeset.
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📒 Files selected for processing (4)

• ghost/core/core/boot.js
• ghost/core/core/server/services/xmlrpc.js
• ghost/core/core/shared/config/env/config.development.json
• ghost/core/test/unit/server/services/xmlrpc.test.js

💤 Files with no reviewable changes (4)

• ghost/core/core/boot.js
• ghost/core/core/shared/config/env/config.development.json
• ghost/core/test/unit/server/services/xmlrpc.test.js
• ghost/core/core/server/services/xmlrpc.js

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