Merge pull request cms-sw#160 from nclopezo/parse-categories-to-json

Added a simple script to generate a json file with the categories

generate-categories-json

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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+
+from categories import CMSSW_CATEGORIES, CMSSW_L2, CMSSW_L1
+import json
+# Generates a json file sumarizing the categories, their packages, and conveners 
+# it asumes that categories.py from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cms-sw/cms-bot/HEAD/categories.py 
+# is already downloaded
+
+# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Global Variables
+# -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+OUTPUT_FILE = 'categories.json'
+
+# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Start of execution
+# -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+all_categories = CMSSW_CATEGORIES.keys()
+# schema of categories_to_people:
+# {
+#   "<category>" : [ "<person1>" , "person2" , ... , "personN" ]
+# }
+categories_to_people = {}
+
+for person in CMSSW_L2.keys():
+  categories = CMSSW_L2[ person ]
+  for cat in categories:
+    if not categories_to_people.get( cat ):
+      categories_to_people[ cat ] = []
+    categories_to_people[ cat ].append( person )
+
+print '----------------'
+print categories_to_people
+
+output = {}
+output[ 'categories_to_people' ] = categories_to_people
+output[ 'categories_to_packages' ] = CMSSW_CATEGORIES
+output[ 'L1' ] = CMSSW_L1
+
+out_json = open( OUTPUT_FILE , "w" )
+json.dump( output , out_json , indent=4 )
+out_json.close()