Copy releases from products frontmatter (#465)

Copy releases, without their properties, from product data (frontmatter) to release data.

This script is not intended to be declared in the frontmatter: it is for internal use only.
It executes before all other scripts, and helps the following scripts to work with releases.

src/_copy_product_releases.py

@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+from common import releasedata
+
+"""Copy releases, without their properties, from product data (frontmatter) to release data.
+
+This script is not intended to be declared in the frontmatter: it is for internal use only.
+It executes before all other scripts, and helps the following scripts to work with releases.
+"""
+
+frontmatter, _ = releasedata.parse_argv(ignore_auto_config=True)
+with releasedata.ProductData(frontmatter.name) as product_data:
+    for frontmatter_release in frontmatter.get_releases():
+        product_data.get_release(frontmatter_release.get("releaseCycle"))

src/common/releasedata.py

@@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ class ProductData:
 def config_from_argv() -> endoflife.AutoConfig:
     return parse_argv()[1]
 
-def parse_argv() -> tuple[endoflife.ProductFrontmatter, endoflife.AutoConfig]:
+def parse_argv(ignore_auto_config: bool = False) -> tuple[endoflife.ProductFrontmatter, endoflife.AutoConfig]:
     parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=sys.argv[0])
     parser.add_argument('-p', '--product', required=True, help='path to the product')
     parser.add_argument('-m', '--method', required=True, help='method to filter by')
@@ -205,4 +205,5 @@ def parse_argv() -> tuple[endoflife.ProductFrontmatter, endoflife.AutoConfig]:
     logging.basicConfig(format="%(message)s", level=(logging.DEBUG if args.verbose else logging.INFO))
 
     product = endoflife.ProductFrontmatter(Path(args.product))
-    return product, product.auto_config(args.method, args.url)
+    auto_config = None if ignore_auto_config else product.auto_config(args.method, args.url)
+    return product, auto_config

update-release-data.py

@@ -105,13 +105,18 @@ def run_scripts(summary: GitHubStepSummary, products: list[ProductFrontmatter])
     exec_summary = ScriptExecutionSummary()
 
     for product in products:
-        if not product.has_auto_configs():
+        configs = product.auto_configs()
-            continue
+
+        if not configs:
+            continue # skip products without auto configs
+
+        # Add default configs
+        configs = [AutoConfig(product.name, {"_copy_product_releases": ""})] + configs
 
         with GitHubGroup(product.name):
             try:
                 __delete_data(product)
-                for config in product.auto_configs():
+                for config in configs:
                     success = __run_script(product, config, exec_summary)
                     if not success:
                         __revert_data(product)