274711 - RSS for staff meeting minutes

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(www.mozilla.org :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Vidar Haarr (not reading bugmail)]

I'd be great if an RSS feed for the mozilla.org staff meeting minutes could be
provided.

Comment 1

[Vidar Haarr (not reading bugmail)]

Fantasai: Anne suggested that you might be able to help me with this.

I could probably do this myself if I get some guidelines.
Colin on #bmo (Colin S. Ogilvie) said we could probably hook it into the build
process, which, as far as he knows, currently builds news.rdf for example.
news.rdf probably has some template that we could use for the minutes ?

The feed wouldn't need the entire text, although that's what I really want. I
guess there's really no technical difference.

Any guidance appreciated, thanks.

Comment 2

[Vidar Haarr (not reading bugmail)]

Notes from various people on IRC:
<http://cvs-www.mozilla.org/webtools/bonsai/cvslog.cgi?file=mozilla-org/tools/make-news.pl>
<http://www.mozilla.org/contribute/hacking/first-bugs/>

<Colin> hooking it into the build process
<anne> I guess some web admin can take care of that
<anne> like dbaron

CC'ing dbaron for www-build foo

Comment 3

[fantasai]

You'll want to base it off of the bug-feed scripts rather than the news one. It
might make sense just to extend bug-feed.pl to read in the minutes.

How do you want to organize the web version of the minutes? At the moment, bug
feed requires all entries in the feed to be in the same file, but we can extend
it to read from multiple files if we know exactly how they'll be organized.

Comment 4

[fantasai]

bug-feed.pl could just read in the minutes page as it is right now and create a
feed from that. You'd need to add the bug-feed start and end PIs, add IDs to all
the <dt>s (they should be ISO dates, so e.g. 'D2004-10-24'), and make
bug-feed.pl process it.

I originally had bug-feed.pl use a ProcessFile function so it could be easily
extended to do a loop over multiple files... dbaron seems to have changed that
and dumped everything into a single subroutine while he was fixing other issues.
You can see the previous version in bug 243369. You'll have to reorganize
bug-feed to separate out that function again and change $filedir into an array.

Comment 5

[Vidar Haarr (not reading bugmail)]

Fantasai: Thanks for the good pointers!

If nobody else touches this bug, I'll hopefully take a look at it near the end
of desember.

Comment 6

[fantasai]

You'll need to set up a website build system so you can run the process and test
your work. Instructions are at http://www.mozilla.org/contribute/writing/cvs
(Let me know if there's wrong or missing infos.) No one else has taken this bug,
so feel free to assign it to yourself.

Comment 7

[Reed Loden [:reed]]

staff meeting minutes aren't up to date at all...