FedoraJobs: Calls For Hacks

[Ivan Leong]

Bill Nottingham wrote:

>Ivan Leong (lstfedoradevel at mw.hn.org) said: 
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>>you also didn't specify the environment, ie, how often it runs, against 
>>which URL etc. so i made the script get the monthly thread list, parse for the list 
>>of msgs in that month, retrieve each msg in sequence, parse the html for a 
>>valid announcement. when all msgs have been parsed, it generates a html for 
>>each msg, and one RSS xml and one RSS_SECURITY xml.
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>Ah, that's what I get for under-specifying.
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>I meant operating on just the announcement message itself, although
>this can definitely work.
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to operate on just the annoucement itself, invoke the "process" perl 
subroutine with the URL of the announcement. i did figured you might 
want to do just this so i made the main processing a subroutine.

also, the output (rss & html) routines simply prints out the gathered 
data (in the "%upd" hash), so it is easy to change the output.

>I'll play with this some more next week and have more comments then.
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oh, and since all this is text (html) processing & reporting, i thought 
perl would be the best fit.