Bug#970744: ben: please provide machine-parseable version of transition status

[Stéphane Glondu <glondu@debian.org>]

Le 25/09/2020 à 22:55, Sebastian Ramacher a écrit :
>> I just realized there is already a JSON output, made by Mehdi in 2015...
>> maybe it could suit your needs?
> 
> If I'm not missing a switch somewhere, the JSON output can only be used
> with `ben monitor`, right?

Indeed, HTML output seems hard-coded in `ben tracker`.
> Could that somehow be integrated into `ben
> tracker` and extended with the other fields?

Yes. There are two tasks here, which I think are independent:

1. extend `ben tracker` with --outputs a,b,... for all supported (or a
   selected subset of) outputs of `ben monitor`
2. enrich JSON output with "the other fields"

I can do both. It will take more time than I expected, though.


Cheers,

-- 
Stéphane