6. Other tools

Generate template-based text for email

It can be time-wasting to write always the same emails to people to onboard on GitHub projects or for newcomers. In fact the emails are almost each time the same: share resources, explain some rules. So, a PHP script has been written to produce a text to share using some template and configuration file.

php text-generator.php "_templates/new-GitHub-repository-contributors.fr.template.txt" "_templates/values.ini"

It will iterate on each value defined in the values.ini file (easy to parse in PHP thanks to standard API) and replace each occurence of the variable by its value.