Re: FedoraJobs: Calls For Hacks

[Ivan Leong <lstfedoradevel mw hn org>]

Bill Nottingham wrote:

> Ivan Leong (lstfedoradevel 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.
> >    
>
> Ah, that's what I get for under-specifying.
>
> I meant operating on just the announcement message itself, although
> this can definitely work.
>  
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.
>  
oh, and since all this is text (html) processing & reporting, i thought 
perl would be the best fit.