Add a .ics to the site #439
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Because there are a few entries I'll comment here. Is the timezone stuff necessary? If so we should probably use GMT as the base.
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Good question. When we say "code freeze on mm/dd", which TZ do we use to mark the end of 'dd'?
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US Central time. :)
I'm only 1/2 kidding. We don't use Central time as we're in flyover country and are not worthy of such prominence, but the reality is the deadlines are roughly end of business day my time. Unless it's about a micro James is coordinating, in which case it's EOBD his time. :)
I don't think putting specific times is good, although I think the way you've allowed for it with an if block is good. If TZ data can somehow be read as implying a time even if one isn't specified, UTC works because end of calendar day UTC is 6 hours before end of business day Central time, which is close enough.
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I've made an attempt to update the TZ to GMT. It looks a little odd, but that's what The Internet seems to think I should use. I did validate it using ical4j's CLI tools, and it's happy. I can also import the .ics from a test server locally into Thunderbird, and the calendar renders as expected. Or seems to. :)
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@jasondlee Is there any public discussion around this anywhere? It seems like a good idea, but I also know various people are thinking about doing things in this broader community communication area, so I don't want to do something that messes with other plans. If you're proposing this as part of a group effort can you @ ping the relevant people here and request a review? |
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@bstansberry Not really, no. I think I had intended this to start that discussion (or join something already going?) I'll email the PR link to the dev list to give it more visibility in case there's a conversation I'm not privy to. |
Remove test data Set TZ to GMT Add ORGANIZER required field (per ical4j validation)
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I like having a published calendar but could we somehow automate generate publication from a SmartSheet? I have used an internal SmartSheet to generate a set of dates, not because the data needs to be internal to Red Hat but just because as a tool it calculates dependencies and relative dates etc - if we could export that it would mean we would not need manual synchronisation. |
Agreed. Everybody got busy with Other Stuff and this got dropped. I'd like to see it finished. I'll follow up in chat. |
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I think we should continue to discuss how this can be generated maintained so we can keep it up to date? Maybe start a discussion in chat to follow up?
Agreed. Everybody got busy with Other Stuff and this got dropped. I'd like to see it finished. I'll follow up in chat.
Did the chat end up being created? I always assumed we are just going to create a public Google calendar, embed / link it from the website. Primarily for the simplicity of management by team members and all the existing functionality to add to calendar, notifications, etc.
Add .ics template
Create data file for dates