Display recent update(s) from status blog about ocfweb HOT 10 CLOSED

Just kill #1 and replace with this if last post updated date <= N days, N =
3.

2015-09-04 15:48 GMT-07:00 Matthew McAllister [email protected]:

This may or may not be tricky, but even getting only the headlines from
the status blog would be really valuable. We want everyone to be well aware
what's happening when there's a security alert or a service goes down.

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who wants to parse xml

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I think we could drop #15 if we do this

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Throw xpath at the problem

[install lxml]

>>> from lxml import etree
>>> tree = etree.parse("http://status.ocf.berkeley.edu/feeds/posts/default")
>>> tree.xpath("//atom:entry[1]/atom:title", namespaces={'atom': 'http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom'})[0].text
'Removing automatic redirects from www.ocf.b.e/user -> www.ocf.b.e/~user'

2015-09-04 18:47 GMT-07:00 Chris Kuehl [email protected]:

I think we could drop #15 #15 if we
do this

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amazing

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added parsing in 409a0ca, need to figure out how we want to display it

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ok, I think I finally found a decent way to display this:

I'm pushing now and closing this issue, but comments are welcome.

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b70c37f

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Maybe don't display messages older than a certain age (e.g. 1 month)? In the screenshot posted for example, the fact that there was downtime 1 month ago is not terribly useful.

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that was intentional; originally it did, but it wasn't very useful and looked funky.

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