RTEMS Release Notes Generator - GSoC Project

[Chris Johns]

On 5/3/20 2:59 am, Denil Verghese wrote:
> Thanks, I'll check it out. 

Great

> On Wed, 4 Mar, 2020, 7:54 AM Chris Johns, <chrisj at rtems.org
> <mailto:chrisj at rtems.org>> wrote:
> 
>     On 4/3/20 1:04 pm, Denil Verghese wrote:
>     > I've read the ticket page at https://devel.rtems.org/ticket/3314, but it was
>     > last modified a couple of years ago. I would like to know if there are any
>     > changes or information that are missing from the ticket.
>     >
>     > I have intermediate knowledge on python, have a good grasp on both HTML
>     and CSS
>     > and basic level on XML.
> 
>     Thank you for the interest.
> 
>     I have updated the ticket. The existing work can be found in this repo ...
> 
>     https://github.com/dh0072/ReleaseNotesGenerator
> 
> 
> 
>     There is working code to fetch the tickets from Trac. The next stage is to
>     generate ReST output from the data that can built into HTML or PDF by Sphinx
> 
>  
> I will complete the remaining task.Will the project good enough for GSoC or
> should I do some additional work?
> 
>     There is existing MarkDown support but it not right or suitable for use. I am
>     not sure how usable that part of the code is.
> 
>     Chris
> 
> 
> Since, I knows how to scrape web-pages could I use that to get comments
> associated with each ticket?

The tickets are not downloaded as HTML. I think we use XML or comma limited
text. If you look at the bottom of a ticket you can see links to other formats.
This is what is used.

I think scraping web pages is fragile as a change in the formatting can break
the parsing.

Chris