The script only get versions 4.x and above, see script comments for more informations.
Note that the code related to git has been extracted to a common script so that it can be reused for the Debian script.
Create a common function to write resulting JSON files to the releases directory.
It makes this task simpler to read and maintain, while making it modifiable at a central point in the future.
One example of such modification could be the sorting of the versions in a uniform way for all the scripts.
This creates a common function to fetch HTTP URLs, with enhanced capabilities (retry, use of a known User-Agent).
It makes scripts that need those capabilities simpler, while improving other scripts.
This commit also fixes some scripts that did not log properly (cos.py, eks.py, haproxy.py, palo-alto-networks.py, rhel.py, ros.py, unrealircd.py).
Generic scripts are scripts that handle multiple product based on some identifier (URL, coordinates...).
This creates a common function to list and load product configurations for those scripts.
It makes them simpler to read and maintain, while making the way they work much more consistent.
