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yaml2ical
This tool converts a series of meeting descriptions in YAML format into one or several .ics files suitable for calendaring. It checks for scheduling conflicts in specific locations.
Rationale
yaml2ical aims to provide an easier way to manage online team meetings.
This project allows to define each meeting with well-defined YAML files, which can be code-reviewed, then continuously-integrated into .ics files for general consumption.
Getting Started
Running Locally from Command Line
To test this project locally, you must have the following requirements installed:
- Python 3.3+
- iCalendar python library
- PyYaml python library
Before running this tool, first edit some meeting YAML files in the meetings directory. To create a new meeting YAML file, read the YAML Meeting File section below.
$ pip install yaml2ical $ yaml2ical usage: yaml2ical [-h] -y YAML_DIR (-i ICAL_DIR | -o ICALFILE) [-t INDEX_TEMPLATE] [-w INDEX_OUTPUT] [-n CALNAME] [-d CALDESCRIPTION] [-f] A tool that automates the process for testing, integrating, and publishing changes to online meeting schedules. optional arguments: -h, --help show this help message and exit -y YAML_DIR, --yamldir YAML_DIR directory containing YAML to process -i ICAL_DIR, --icaldir ICAL_DIR output directory (one file per meeting) -o ICALFILE, --output ICALFILE output file (one file for all meetings) -t INDEX_TEMPLATE, --indextemplate INDEX_TEMPLATE generate an index from selected meetings -w INDEX_OUTPUT, --indexoutput INDEX_OUTPUT output index file -n CALNAME, --name CALNAME name of calendar to set within the ical -d CALDESCRIPTION, --description CALDESCRIPTION description of calendar to set within the ical -f, --force remove/overwrite previous output files
The following are a few scenarios:
Generate .ics files locally from existing yaml meeting files:
$ yaml2ical -y meetings/ -i icals/
The generated .ics files are not tracked in this git repository, but
they are available locally to import into your calendar. Note, to remove
stale .ics files, use the --force
argument:
$ ls icals/ Barbican Meeting-b58d78a4.ics Ceilometer Team Meeting-9ed7b5b4.ics Chef Cookbook Meeting-2418b331.ics
With each .ics file looking something similar to:
$ cat icals/Barbican\ Meeting-b58d78a4.ics BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//yaml2ical agendas//EN BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Barbican Meeting (openstack-meeting-alt) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20141006T200000Z DURATION:PT1H DESCRIPTION:Project: Barbican Meeting\nChair: jraim\nIRC: openstack-meet ing-alt\nAgenda:'* malini - update on Security Guide documentation\n\n * alee_/atiwari - Crypto plugin changes\n\n * arunkant - Target support in barbican policy enforcement\n\n * jaraim - Support for debug mode start i n barbican\, can be merged?\n\n '\n\nDescription: The Barbican project t eam holds a weekly team meeting in\n#openstack-meeting-alt:\n* Weekly on M ondays at 2000 UTC\n* The blueprints that are used as a basis for the Barb ican project can be\n found at https://blueprints.launchpad.net/barbican\ n* Notes for previous meetings can be found here.\n* Chair (to contact for more information): jraim (#openstack-barbican @\n Freenode)\n RRULE:FREQ=WEEKLY END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR
YAML Meeting File
Each meeting consists of:
project
: the name of the project [MANDATORY]schedule
: a list of schedule each consisting oftime
: time string in UTC [MANDATORY]duration
: duration of the meeting in minutes; defaults to 60start_date
: the date the first meeting takes place on or after.-
Format YYYYMMDD, all values must be zero-padded.
day
: the day of week the meeting takes place [MANDATORY]irc
: the irc room in which the meeting is held [MANDATORY]frequency
: frequent occurrence of the meeting [MANDATORY]skip_dates
: A set of dates that the meeting DOES NOT happen onskip_date
: Skip the meeting for specified date. Format asstart_date
reason
: A comment for why the meeting was skipped
chair
: name of the meeting's chair [MANDATORY]description
: a paragraph description about the meeting [MANDATORY]agenda_url
: a link to the agenda page for the meetingproject_url
: a link to the project home page for the meeting
The file name should be a lower-cased, hyphenated version of the
meeting name, ending with .yaml
. For example,
Keystone team meeting
should be saved under
keystone-team-meeting.yaml
.
Any other values listed in the YAML file are also available for use
in templates, making it easy to build links to agenda pages for the
meeting or logs of past meetings. In the template file, use
meeting.extras.name
to access the value.
Frequencies
yaml2ical supports a number of possible frequency options:
- Event occurs every week:
weekly
: Event occurs every week.
- Event alternates and starts on the next
day
:biweekly-even
: Occurs on even weeks (ISOweek % 2 == 0
)biweekly-odd
Occurs on odd weeks (ISOweek % 2 == 1
):
- Event occurs every 4 weeks and starts on the next
day
:quadweekly
: Occurs whenISOweek % 4 == 0
quadweekly-week-1
: Occurs whenISOweek % 4 == 1
quadweekly-week-2
,quadweekly-alternate
: Occurs whenISOweek % 4 == 2
quadweekly-week-3
: Occurs whenISOweek % 4 == 3
- Event occurs in a particular week of a month:
first-monday
: On the first Monday of the month.second-tuesday
: On the second Tuesday of the month.third-wednesday
: On the third Wednesday of the month.fourth-thursday
: On the fourth Thursday of the month.- etc
- Event doesn't happen on a defined schedule but is used as a
placeholder for html generation:
adhoc
Note
Odd/Even and week numbers are based on the ISO week number. ISO weeks
can be checked with %V
in GNU
date(1)
Note
All alternating meetings suffer from a probelm when years include an ISO week 53, this happened in 2015/2016 and happens approximately every 5 years.
Example 1
This is an example for the yaml meeting for Nova team meeting. The whole file will be import into Python as a dictionary.
The project name is shown below.
project: Nova Team Meeting
The schedule is a list of dictionaries each consisting of time in UTC, day of the week, the irc meeting room, and the frequency of the meeting. See above for notes on frequency.
adhoc can be used to list the possibility of something in the schedule but will not actually generate any calendar events. This can be used for placeholders and will act as a noop when generating the calendar.
schedule: - time: '1400' day: Thursday irc: openstack-meeting-alt frequency: biweekly-even - time: '2100' day: Thursday irc: openstack-meeting frequency: biweekly-odd
The chair is just a one liner.
chair: Russell Bryant
The project description is as follows. Use > for paragraphs where new lines are folded, or | for paragraphs where new lines are preserved.
description: > This meeting is a weekly gathering of developers working on OpenStack. Compute (Nova). We cover topics such as release planning and status, bugs, reviews, and other current topics worthy of real-time discussion.
An extra property containing the agenda for the meeting is saved in
agenda_url
and can be accessed in the template file asmeeting.extras.agenda_url
.agenda_url: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Meetings/Nova
An extra property containing the project URL is saved in
project_url
and can be accessed in the template file asmeeting.extras.project_url
.project_url: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Nova
An extra property containing the MeetBot #startmeeting ID for the project is saved in
meeting_id
and can be accessed in the template file asmeeting.extras.meeting_id
.meeting_id: nova
Example 2
The following shows a complete YAML file for the IRC meetings for "example project". The project starts holding weekly meetings from October 1st, the project team has a "face to face" meeting on the 26th of October so that IRC meeting should be ommited from the ical schedule
This YAML
project: Example Project Meeting project_url: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Example agenda_url: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Meetings/Example meeting_id: example chair: A. Random Developer description: > This meeting is a weekly gathering of developers working on Example project. schedule: - time: '2100' day: Monday irc: openstack-meeting start_date: 20151001 frequency: weekly skip_dates: - skip_date: 20151026 reason: Face 2 Face meeting at some location
Is converted into this iCal
BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//yaml2ical agendas//EN BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:CANCELLED: Example Project Meeting (20151026T210000Z) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20151026T210000Z DURATION:PT1H DESCRIPTION:Face 2 Face meeting at some location LOCATION:#openstack-meeting END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Example Project Meeting DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20151005T210000Z DURATION:PT1H EXDATE:20151026T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Project: Example Project Meeting\nChair: A. Random Developer \nDescription: This meeting is a weekly gathering of developers working o n Example project.\n\nAgenda URL: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Meeting s/Example\nProject URL: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Example LOCATION:#openstack-meeting RRULE:FREQ=WEEKLY END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR