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

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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