add update-news.pl to update NEWS file from changelog.qgis.org

Author: jef-n

scripts/release.pl

@@ -153,7 +153,10 @@ ($$)
 run( "scripts/create_changelog.sh", "create_changelog.sh failed" );
 
 unless( $dopoint ) {
-	run( "git commit -a -m \"changelog update for $release\"", "could not commit changelog update" );
+	# 2.14 already there - skip it this time
+	#run( "scripts/update-news.pl $newmajor $newminor '$release'" );
+
+	run( "git commit -a -m \"changelog and news update for $release\"", "could not commit changelog and news update" );
 
 	print "Creating and checking out branch...\n";
 	run( "git checkout -b $relbranch", "git checkout release branch failed" );

scripts/update-news.pl

@@ -0,0 +1,72 @@
+#!/usr/bin/perl
+# updates the news file from changelog.qgis.org
+
+# Copyright (C) 2016 Jürgen E. Fischer <jef@norbit.de>
+
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+
+use strict;
+use warnings;
+use Pod::Usage;
+use LWP::Simple;
+use File::Temp qw/tempfile/;
+use File::Copy qw/copy/;
+
+pod2usage(1) if @ARGV!=3;
+
+my ($major,$minor,$releasename) = @ARGV;
+
+
+my ($news,$tempfile) = tempfile();
+
+open my $in, "doc/news.t2t";
+while(<$in>) {
+	print $news $_;
+	last if /^Last Change/;
+}
+
+my $content = get("http://changelog.qgis.org/en/qgis/version/$major.$minor.0/gnu/" );
+die "Couldn't get it!" unless defined $content;
+
+print $news "\n= What's new in Version $major.$minor '$releasename'? =\n\n";
+print $news "This release has following new features:\n\n";
+
+for $_ (split /\n/, $content) {
+	next if /^Changelog /;
+	next if /^------/;
+	next if /^\s*$/;
+
+	s/^&quot;/"/g;
+	s/^\*\s+/- /;
+	s/ : /: /;
+	s/\s+$//;
+
+	print $news "$_\n";
+}
+
+print $news "\n";
+
+while(<$in>) {
+	print $news $_;
+}
+
+close $news;
+close $in;
+
+copy($tempfile, "doc/news.t2t");
+
+system "txt2tags -odoc/news.html -t html doc/news.t2t";
+system "txt2tags -oNEWS -t txt doc/news.t2t";
+
+=head1 NAME
+
+update-news.pl - updates the news file from changelog.qgis.org
+
+=head1 SYNOPSIS
+
+update-news.pl major minor releasename
+
+=cut