[metrics-bugs] #26763 [Metrics/Bot]: Generate tweets from Metrics news feed

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#26763: Generate tweets from Metrics news feed
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 Reporter:  irl          |          Owner:  irl
     Type:  enhancement  |         Status:  accepted
 Priority:  Medium       |      Milestone:
Component:  Metrics/Bot  |        Version:
 Severity:  Normal       |     Resolution:
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Comment (by irl):

 Ok, so I've come up with the following two agents that should consume the
 RSS feed and create nicely formatted tweets.

 The formatter should always truncate titles so that tweets are never more
 than 280 chars. When it does this it should add an ellipsis.

 {{{
 {
   "schema_version": 1,
   "name": "tor-metrics",
   "description": "Pipeline for Tor Metrics events",
   "source_url": false,
   "guid": "eebb7901f99b08495379a92d32e11cb5",
   "tag_fg_color": "#ffffff",
   "tag_bg_color": "#5bc0de",
   "icon": "tachometer",
   "exported_at": "2018-07-31T14:42:06Z",
   "agents": [
     {
       "type": "Agents::EventFormattingAgent",
       "name": "Tor Metrics News Tweet Formatter",
       "disabled": false,
       "guid": "6afc600330eda3301787876417d9204b",
       "options": {
         "instructions": {
           "message": "News entry added for {{last_updated | date:\"%d
 %b\"}}: {{title | truncate:200}}
 https://metrics.torproject.org/news.html",
           "agent": "{{agent.type}}"
         },
         "matchers": [

         ],
         "mode": "clean"
       },
       "keep_events_for": 0,
       "propagate_immediately": false
     },
     {
       "type": "Agents::RssAgent",
       "name": "Tor Metrics News",
       "disabled": false,
       "guid": "a97c03cd19c1b6a4bf9b4e7a2fb109d1",
       "options": {
         "expected_update_period_in_days": "10",
         "clean": "false",
         "url": "https://metrics.torproject.org/news.atom"
       },
       "schedule": "every_1h",
       "keep_events_for": 0
     }
   ],
   "links": [
     {
       "source": 1,
       "receiver": 0
     }
   ],
   "control_links": [

   ]
 }
 }}}

 hiro: Does this look reasonable to you?

 I think I'll let it run for a while to see how it updates when we update
 the feed before plugging the Twitter account into it.

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