Extend to cover New Zealand channels

[DeanPemberton]

As there are people in NZ using Shepherd to grab data for Aussie channels. Is there an interest in extending Shepherd to grab NZ guide data too?

If so then let me know and I can start on the grabber etc.

Also let me know if you see any large gotchas (timezones etc)

[max]

Would you be able to host a Shepherd NZ mirror?

[DeanPemberton]

Depending on whats required, it's certainly possible.

[max]

We could adapt Shepherd to support NZ. This is what would be required:

1. Someone writes grabbers for NZ regions. (At least one; more would be good.)
2. We modify Shepherd's --configure routine to support non-Aus locations
3. We modify Shepherd to support partial mirroring. NZ users would issue a command like "--setmirror http://nz.shepherd.url" to indicate that their Shepherd should look in a non-standard location for status updates. The NZ mirror would host a local status file, differing from the main one where appropriate (e.g. no Aussie grabbers, new NZ ones), plus local code (the NZ grabbers). Everything else would continue to be pulled from the main server.
4. An NZ host for storing the status file and NZ grabbers.
5. Maintenance of above.

None of that would be too hard. The grabbers would require most work.

[max]

Numbers 2 and 3 above are now supported via --sources (incl. --addsource, --delsource).

[max]

Closed due to lack of user response.