Task #3092
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Create an automatic list of LibO dailies somewhere
Added by Beluga Beluga over 4 years ago.
Updated over 4 years ago.
Description
Attached is a PHP script, which snoops inside https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/master/ and creates a simple html file listing the most recent dailies. This will help QA & design contributors in discovering the latest and greatest.
I propose to put this somewhere on our infra (I'm out of ideas on where exactly) and create a cron job to run it at hours 00, 08 and 16.
I thought generating a static file by cron would be best as the info does not need to be real-time and I would not want to cause any pointless traffic.
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- Assignee set to Guilhem Moulin
Attached is a PHP script, which snoops inside https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/master/ .
The HTML index pages are auto-generated by the HTTPd and are not meant to be parsable. Many infra calls ago we discussed providing sidecar JSON index files (also auto-generated, but parsable this time), but seems there was not enough interest. Given it makes most sense to serve libo_master_daily_builds.html on the dev-builds box itself, one could simply do a FS traversal to discover recent builds. Compared to hammering the HTTPd with requests and scrapping the HTML, it'll be more robust and much more efficient.
Another thing is that the PHP CLI is (intentionally) not part of the baseline, unlike say, POSIX shell, bash, perl, python3 (and still python2). The dev-build box in particular doesn't have PHP installed. Seems really overkill to install it (along with php-curl) just for a 150 lines script :-P I can provide a drop-in using GNU findutils and bash.
Yeah, this was written from the perspective of someone without file system access, so I guess it will indeed be rather trivial for you to reimplement as a shell script :)
I just wanted this done as there is a pressing need to have a clear listing, not only for onboarding new contributors, but for helping existing ones as well.
- Subject changed from Copy my PHP script for creating a list of LibO dailies somewhere and create a cron job to Create an automatic list of LibO dailies somewhere
- Status changed from New to Feedback
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That looks wonderful. Thanks a lot!
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