'Attempts to open and parse the .tracker file specified in path
:param path: path to .tracker file
:return: the parsed XML'

@classmethod
def read_tracker_config(cls, path):

    try:
        tracker_config = parse(path).getroot()
    except Exception as e:
        raise TrackerFileParseError((u'Unable    to    parse    tracker    config    file    %s:    %s' % (path, e)))
    else:
        return tracker_config
