Release Process Improvements

[sushi2k]

To-Do pushed to next release:

• [ ] Parse the log output in GitHub actions to detect overflows that might cause issues in the produced artefacts (PDF etc.); meaning missing line breaks (happens for example with source code)
• [ ] Add contributors automatically in MSTG document build
• [ ] Add captions automatically to pictures with python script from @cpholguera
• [ ] Auto-generate excel checklists with Carlos python script
• [ ] Clarify around donations (https://owasp.org/www-project-mobile-security-testing-guide/, OWASP https://owasp.org/www-policy/operational-historical/project-sponsorship.html)
  • [ ] Specify size of logo for companies that were donating for each category
  • [ ] Check duration of sponsorship so we can remove once expired (add date to each donator?)
• [ ] Automate cover creation for Lulu.com

This is much faster: extract the first page and then convert:

from pdf2image import convert_from_path
from PyPDF2 import PdfFileReader, PdfFileWriter
“”"
pdf2image on macOS needs: brew install poppler
See https://github.com/Belval/pdf2image#how-to-install
“”"
def split(path, name_of_split):
    pdf = PdfFileReader(path)
    pdf_writer = PdfFileWriter()
    pdf_writer.addPage(pdf.getPage(0))
    output = f’{name_of_split}.pdf’
    with open(output, ‘wb’) as output_pdf:
        pdf_writer.write(output_pdf)
if __name__ == ‘__main__‘:
    path = ‘OWASP_MSTG-1.2.pdf’
    split(path, ‘cover_v1.2’)
    convert_from_path(‘cover_v1.2.pdf’)[0].save(‘cover_v1.2.png’, ‘PNG’)

[cpholguera]

see https://github.com/OWASP/owasp-mstg/issues/1772