FedoraJobs: Calls For Hacks

[Bill Nottingham]

Ivan Leong (lstfedoradevel at mw.hn.org) said: 
> you also didn't specify the environment, ie, how often it runs, against 
> which URL (the thread list 
> <http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2004-January/thread.html>?), 
> 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.

I'll play with this some more next week and have more comments then.

Bill