Rewrite hamstudy commands to cache data

[classabbyamp]

also, make hamstudy images more visible by adding a white background. At the moment, hamstudy provides images for rq and rqa that are black fg/transparent bg. these are loaded directly. visibility could be improved by adding a white backrgound.

[0x5c]

That is computationally expensive, as is requesting the pools and images.

Would prefetching/bundling those work?

[classabbyamp]

if the pools are cached, then the images could be converted independent of main bot operations. pools should only be updated once in a long time.

[0x5c]

If long-time is more then a month, then bundling would seem like a good idea.

Does HamStudy allows redistribution of their data? I could see a small data-update script, and a makefile target to run it. Then we would only need to commit the data and call it a day.

[0x5c]

Of course, the image modification would be part of that script (the bot will need PIL anyway)

[classabbyamp]

Messaged hamstudy guy, no reply yet.

[classabbyamp]

We have permission from hamstudy to cache data

[classabbyamp]

Also, include attribution for hamstudy.

[classabbyamp]

admin command to run a script (subprocess) to update the cache. is also run with the makefile on first run