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

Fredrik Lundh fredrik at pythonware.com
Sun Apr 2 17:31:15 CEST 2006

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.

(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.

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