[Python-Dev] I'm not getting email from SF when assigned a bug/patch

[Brett Cannon]

On 4/2/06, Fredrik Lundh <fredrik at pythonware.com> wrote:
> Brett Cannon wrote:
>
> > > oh, I forgot that the Procrastination & Stop energy Foundation was involved
> > > in this.
> >
> > Fredrik, if you would like to help move this all forward, great; I
> > would appreciate the help.  You can write a page scraper to get the
> > data out of SF
>
> challenge accepted ;-)
>
> http://effbot.python-hosting.com/browser/stuff/sandbox/sourceforge/
>
> contains three basic tools; getindex to grab index information from a
> python tracker, getpages to get "raw" xhtml versions of the item pages,
> and getfiles to get attached files.
>
> I'm currently downloading a tracker snapshot that could be useful for
> testing; it'll take a few more hours before all data are downloaded
> (provided that SF doesn't ban me, and I don't stumble upon more
> cases where a certain rhettinger has pasted binary gunk into an
> iso-8859-1 form ;-).
>
>     $ python status.py
>     tracker-105470
>         6681 items
>         1201 pages (17%)
>         104 files
>     tracker-305470
>         3610 items
>         0 pages (0%)
>         0 files
>     tracker-355470
>         430 items
>         430 pages (100%)
>         80 files
>
> the final step is to finish the "off-line scraper" library (a straightfor-
> ward ET hack), and make a snapshot archive available to interested
> parties.  (drop me a line if you want a copy)
>
> > If you would rather contribute by collecting a list of possible
> > trackers along with who will maintain it, then please do.  I am not
> > going to dive into that quite yet, but if you want to parallelize the
> > work needed then I would appreciate the help.
>
> that is what I expected the PSF infrastructure committee to do (I hope
> you're not the only one in that committee?); it's a bit disappointing to
> hear that we're still stuck on the SF export issue.
>

The reason I didn't want to deal with the trackers quite yet was that
I could see people getting the trackers up and squared away, and then
just get frustrated when we were unable to get the SF data to them
quickly.  I didn't want other people stuck spinning there wheels
waiting on us.

-Brett

> (wasn't there someone with backchannel access to the SF data ?)
>
> > The tracker will need to be able to import the SF data somehow (probably will require a
> > custom tool so the volunteers need to be aware of this), be able to
> > export data (so we can back it up on a regular basis so we don't have
> > to go through this again), and an email interface for at least
> > replying to tracker items.  A community-wide announcement will
> > probably be needed to get a good group of volunteers together for any
> > one non-commercial tracker.
>
> > But I am not procrastinating.  I don't think I have ever come off as a
> > procrastinator on this list and I don't think I deserve the label.
>
> I wasn't talking about individuals, I was referring to the trend where
> PSF moves something off a public forum, and the work just ends up
> going nowhere.
>
> </F>
>
>
>
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