Treat sourceforge tracker messages with gnus-cite

Treat sourceforge tracker messages with gnus-cite

[Reiner Steib]

Hi,

some projects copy sourceforge tracker comments to mailing list which
are readable on gmane.org, e.g.  gmane.comp.tex.xdvi.devel and
gmane.mail.mh-e.devel.

Unfortunately these article are hard to read because of the citation
style (see below for details) without proper quotation marks:

- message 1 (original article)
- message 2
- [...]
- last message

It would be nice if these articles could be made more readable with
the gnus-cite machinery, including collapsing of long quotes (I have
gnus-cited-lines-visible set to '(3 . 6)).

Below is an example taken from
<E1EKi7t-0005gM-Ju@sc8-sf-web4.sourceforge.net> [1]:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
Bugs item #1306141, was opened at 2005-09-27 15:06
Message generated for change (Comment added) made by psg
You can respond by visiting: 
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=113357&aid=1306141&group_id=13357

Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread,
including the initial issue submission, for this request,
not just the latest update.
Category: MIME
Group: CVS
Status: Open
Resolution: Accepted
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Eric Ding (ericding)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: msg display broken after displaying msg w/ inline image

Initial Comment:
[Everything from "Initial Comment" to "^Comment By:" is the very first
article in this thread, so it should have the highest gnus-cite-N
face.]

----------------------------------------------------------------------

>Comment By: Peter S Galbraith (psg)
Date: 2005-09-28 16:02

Message:
Logged In: YES 
user_id=31877

[This is the second article, so it should be in gnus-cite-(N-1) face]

----------------------------------------------------------------------

Comment By: Bill Wohler (wohler)
Date: 2005-09-27 18:26

Message:
Logged In: YES 
user_id=93690

[This is the most recent article.  It should be displayed in default
face.]

----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can respond by visiting: 
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=113357&aid=1306141&group_id=13357

--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

I tried to fiddle with `gnus-cite-parse' without much success
(everything below "Initial Comment" seems to belong to the initial
comment):

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
--- gnus-cite.el	26 Aug 2005 14:10:02 +0200	7.15
+++ gnus-cite.el	02 Oct 2005 19:24:51 +0200	
@@ -801,6 +801,18 @@
 	(goto-char begin))
       (goto-char start)
       (setq line (1+ line)))
+    ;; Try to support "Initial Comment" on sourceforge list:
+    (goto-char (point-min))
+    (when (re-search-forward "Initial Comment:" max t)
+      (setq begin (count-lines (point-min) (point)))
+      (setq end (or (re-search-forward "^-\\{60,\\}\n+>?Comment By:" max t)
+		    begin))
+      ;; I'm not sure what this does...
+      (setq entry nil)
+      (while (< begin end)
+	(push begin entry)
+	(setq begin (1+ begin)))
+      (push (cons "" entry) alist))
     ;; Horrible special case for some Microsoft mailers.
     (goto-char (point-min))
     (when (re-search-forward gnus-cite-unsightly-citation-regexp max t)
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Maybe I should use `gnus-cite-loose-attribution-alist'.

Ideas?  Suggestions?

Bye, Reiner.

[1] Other MIDs:
    <E1EKNuE-0003UV-Lj@sc8-sf-web1.sourceforge.net>
    <E1EKNuE-0003UV-Lj@sc8-sf-web1.sourceforge.net>
    <E1ELMBx-0000c4-3d@sc8-sf-web4.sourceforge.net>
    <E1ELPEV-0007cw-4U@sc8-sf-web2.sourceforge.net>
    <E1EL3Wu-0001gL-Eh@sc8-sf-web4.sourceforge.net>
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Re: Treat sourceforge tracker messages with gnus-cite

[Wes Hardaker]

>>>>> On Sun, 02 Oct 2005 19:39:31 +0200, Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> said:

Reiner> Unfortunately these article are hard to read because of the citation
Reiner> style (see below for details) without proper quotation marks:

Reiner> - message 1 (original article)
Reiner> - message 2
Reiner> - [...]
Reiner> - last message

I started a long time ago to write a nnsf backend that would actually
pull articles from a SF tracker and display them in gnus...  Never got
it fully working, but got it at least semi-done.  Last I tried it
something changed HTML wise so it needs to be reworked for parsing
again...  I'd be happy to donate what I did to anyone that wants to
look into either fixing it or pulling out some of the parsing to fix
things like the above.

-- 
"In the bathtub of history the truth is harder to hold than the soap,
 and much more difficult to find."  -- Terry Pratchett

Re: Treat sourceforge tracker messages with gnus-cite

[Reiner Steib]

On Mon, Oct 03 2005, Wes Hardaker wrote:

>>>>>> On Sun, 02 Oct 2005 19:39:31 +0200, Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> said:
>
> Reiner> Unfortunately these article are hard to read because of the citation
> Reiner> style (see below for details) without proper quotation marks:
>
> Reiner> - message 1 (original article)
> Reiner> - message 2
> Reiner> - [...]
> Reiner> - last message
>
> I started a long time ago to write a nnsf backend that would actually
> pull articles from a SF tracker and display them in gnus...  

But it probably won't help WRT my wish?

> Never got it fully working, but got it at least semi-done.  Last I
> tried it something changed HTML wise so it needs to be reworked for
> parsing again...  I'd be happy to donate what I did to anyone that
> wants to look into either fixing it or pulling out some of the
> parsing to fix things like the above.

I'd suggest to post it here.  Maybe someone will pick it up.

Bye, Reiner.
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