Re: New RFEs - we might want to review them

On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 11:30 AM, Buck Calabro <kc2hiz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 1/26/2016 11:01 AM, John Yeung wrote:

On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 10:35 AM, Buck Calabro <kc2hiz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

(how I would love an email when a new RFE is added!)

Y'know, you could write a script to go out and get them, and only
notify you if there's a change since the last time the script ran. ;)

Absolutely. curl and one of the diff variants will probably be close
enough. Or I could use [reminder apps or "power bookmark"
browser plug-ins].

I much prefer email to remind me that something useful has occurred...

Yes, I am similarly old-school and like to funnel most things through e-mail.

But I meant hooking up your "curl-and-diff" to an automated scheduler
on the one side and an e-mailer on the other side. (I was actually
thinking in much more elaborate terms, because (1) you made it sound
like bookmarking wasn't going to cut it, which made me worry that a
straight HTML dump wasn't going to cut it either, (1a) I am not quite
sure of curl's full capabilities, so maybe it's powerful enough after
all, and (2) I was thinking in terms of parsing the resulting page to
nicely pull out the new RFE(s) to put in your e-mail, not merely alert
you that something has changed. In light of these (possibly incorrect)
ideas, I had outlined a full-on browser bot in my head. But yeah, if
curl-and-diff is enough, then that is actually pretty quick to throw
together.)

John Y.