(Cross posted to debian-devel, debian-mentors) Dear Debian developers, I have written a few crude and rudimentary scripts to find an approximate list of packages which have been or have _not_ been sponsored despite an RFS to debian-mentors.
The program generates bad output if the RFS mailer has not given the package name right after the first "RFS" in the subject, that too, with a space etc., but it's a start, and gives you the idea. Also, the list is a HTML page, with every package having a link. The link points to the RFS message in the Debian Mentors archive. See it at: http://www.ee.iitm.ac.in/~ee03b091/Mentors/output.html The scripts I wrote for this are at: http://www.ee.iitm.ac.in/~ee03b091/Mentors/mentors-sponscheck.tar.bz2 The README in the tarball explains my methodology and the problems in it. The Python + BeautifulSoup program is inefficient and inelegant. But I have spent quite some time in getting it this far. So, if someone wants to improve it, please do so; I'd be happy. Many thanks to Gurkan Sengun, Christoph Haasand Sune Vuorela to inspire me to write this. Hope it's useful. Thanks! Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 462, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
