Until now products could declare multiple auto-update methods, but they all had to be of the same kind.
For example if you used the git auto-update method, you could not use an additional github_releases or custom auto-update method.
This is an issue as it prevents us to extend the auto-update process, for example by having a product using the 'git' auto-update method to retrieve all the versions, and a custom script to retrieve support and EOL dates.
This improve the scripts execution orchestration to be able to support auto configurations using a mix of methods, meaning:
- multiple kind of methods, such as git and github_release,
- or multiple custom methods.
A side-effect of those changes is that now a failure in a generic script does not cancel the update of subsequent products.
Another side-effect, unwanted this time, is that now custom scripts managing multiple products, such as apple.py, are now executed multiple times instead of once.
This way the writing of the JSON file is handled automatically if the update does not fail.
It pave the way to further global improvements, such as a better error handling.
Make endoflife.list_products return product instead of just the product name, to avoid having to reload the product a second time to get more information.
It may not be the best place for that (gha.py would have been better), but it's the shorter / faster way to do it for now.
Moreover it now uses logging for writing the group. The logger format has been updated for this to work. This was done to fix issues on GitHub Action logs, where groups were declared after the logs.
- Move frontmatter-related operation from Product to ProductFrontmatter. This makes more senses, as we are manipulating different files / kind of data.
- Use Product directly to load old versions.
Make the script more readable, mostly by:
- using the endoflife.Product class,
- introducing the endoflife.AutoConfig class to make it easier to manage such configuration,
- removing the unnecessary use of functions,
- a little bit of renaming.
Create common functions parse_date, parse_month_year_date and parse_datetime.
Those functions support trying multiple formats, and come with default formats lists that support most of the date format encountered so far.
Notable change: year-month dates are now set to the end of month (impacted couchbase-server and ibm-aix).
