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+#!/bin/bash
+
+#
+# ============LICENSE_START================================================
+# ONAP
+# =========================================================================
+# Copyright (C) 2021 Nordix Foundation.
+# =========================================================================
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+# ============LICENSE_END==================================================
+#
+
+SCRIPT_NAME=`basename $0`
+repo_location="./"
+release_data_file="./pf_release_data.csv"
+
+declare -a pf_repos=(
+    "policy/parent"
+    "policy/docker"
+    "policy/common"
+    "policy/models"
+    "policy/api"
+    "policy/pap"
+    "policy/apex-pdp"
+    "policy/drools-pdp"
+    "policy/xacml-pdp"
+    "policy/distribution"
+    "policy/clamp"
+    "policy/gui"
+    "policy/drools-applications"
+)
+
+usage()
+{
+    echo ""
+    echo "$SCRIPT_NAME - gets information from the checked out Policy Framework repos for the release process"
+    echo ""
+    echo "       usage:  $SCRIPT_NAME [-options]"
+    echo ""
+    echo "       options"
+    echo "         -h           - this help message"
+    echo "         -d data_file - the policy release data file to create, defaults to '$release_data_file'"
+    echo "         -l location  - the location of the policy framework repos on the file system,"
+    echo "                        defaults to '$repo_location'"
+    exit 255;
+}
+
+while getopts "hd:l:" opt
+do
+    case $opt in
+    h)
+        usage
+        ;;
+    d)
+        release_data_file=$OPTARG
+        ;;
+    l)
+        repo_location=$OPTARG
+        ;;
+    \?)
+        usage
+        exit 1
+        ;;
+    esac
+done
+
+if [ $OPTIND -eq 1 ]
+then
+    echo "no arguments were specified"
+    usage
+fi
+
+if [[ -z "$repo_location" ]]
+then
+    echo "policy repo location not specified on -l flag"
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+if ! [ -d "$repo_location" ]
+then
+    echo "policy repo location '$repo_location' not found"
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+if [[ -z "$release_data_file" ]]
+then
+    echo "policy release data file not specified on -d flag"
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+update_repos() {
+    echo "updating the policy framework data from '$repo_location' to data file '$release_data_file' . . ."
+
+    for repo in "${pf_repos[@]}"
+    do
+        echo "updating data from repo $repo to data file '$release_data_file' . . ."
+
+        if [ -d $repo_location/$repo ]
+        then
+            echo "updating repository '$repo' . . ."
+            git -C $repo_location/$repo checkout master
+            git -C $repo_location/$repo pull
+            git -C $repo_location/$repo rebase
+            git -C $repo_location/$repo fetch --tags
+        else
+            echo "repo $repo does not exist"
+            exit 1
+        fi
+        echo "data from repo $repo updated to data file '$release_data_file' . . ."
+    done
+
+    echo "policy framework data from '$repo_location' updated to data file '$release_data_file' . . ."
+}
+
+
+get_tags() {
+    echo "Last Tag version,Master Snapshot Version,Changed Files,Docker images"
+    echo "Last Tag version,Master Snapshot Version,Changed Files,Docker images" > $release_data_file
+    for repo in "${pf_repos[@]}"
+    do
+        latest_released_tag=`git -C $repo_location/$repo tag | \
+            grep '^[0-9]*\.[0-9]*\.[0-9]*$' | \
+            sort -V | \
+            tail -1`
+
+        latest_snapshot_tag=`mvn -f $repo_location/$repo clean | \
+            grep "SNAPSHOT" | \
+            tail -1 | \
+            sed -r 's/^.* ([0-9]*\.[0-9]*\.[0-9]*-SNAPSHOT).*$/\1/'`
+
+        changed_files=`git -C $repo_location/$repo diff --name-only $latest_released_tag origin/master | \
+            grep -v 'pom.xml$' | \
+            grep -v '^version.properties$' | \
+            grep -v "^releases/$latest_released_tag.yaml$" | \
+            grep -v "^releases/$latest_released_tag-container.yaml$" | \
+            wc -l | \
+            sed 's/^[[:space:]]*//g'`
+
+        if [ -f $repo_location/$repo/releases/$latest_released_tag-container.yaml ]
+        then
+            docker_images=`grep '\- name:' $repo_location/$repo/releases/$latest_released_tag-container.yaml | \
+            sed -e 's/\- //g' -e 's/\://g' -e "s/\'//g" -e 's/^[[:space:]]*//g' -e 's/^name //' | \
+            tr '\n' ':' | \
+            sed 's/:$//'`
+        else
+            docker_images=""
+        fi
+
+        echo "$repo,$latest_released_tag,$latest_snapshot_tag,$changed_files,$docker_images"
+        echo "$repo,$latest_released_tag,$latest_snapshot_tag,$changed_files,$docker_images" >> $release_data_file
+    done
+}
+
+update_repos
+get_tags
+