On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 7:30 AM Sam Ruby <ru...@intertwingly.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 7:14 AM, John D. Ament <johndam...@apache.org> > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > So, I'm following up on the podling reminder emails. I know I was > looking > > at this a long time ago, but decided I needed to learn a bit about ruby > > (the language) before trying my hands at coming up with a replacement > > script. > > > > So I was wondering, if I do get a script created would whimsy be able to > > run it on a monthly basis in favor of the marvin script? > > I'll give two answers, short term and long term. > > --- > > Short term, what would be most helpful to start is a detailed > description of the current (manual) process, complete with examples or > templates of the emails that are sent out. With that in place, I (or > others) can code up something that you can initially run on your own > machine. I trust that you will find that tweaking a running program > where you can see the outputs instantly to be a less daunting task > than writing an entirely new program in a language that you are not > familiar with. Once it is working, it can be hooked up to either run > as a cron job or as needed, with a a push of a button. > > To see an example of the latter, enable your javascript console in > your browser, go to > https://whimsy.apache.org/board/agenda/2016-03-16/missing, click on > one of the buttons at the bottom, then click on Dry Run. > > --- > > Longer term, I feel that the current board agenda treatment of the > incubator items to be suboptimal - it displays them as a single > report. Splitting them into separate pages that can be navigated > through would be a good start. If there were separate pages per > incubator item, then people could use those pages to submit reports, > and features like mentor signoff and enabling comments and discussions > on individual reports would be a possibility. > > Should there be interest in this longer term vision, that might > influence how the short term step was implemented. > I think we'll need to look long and hard at what the IPMC's report is vs what is all of the podling reports. It may be a better use of time to allow the IPMC to flag podling reports and make comments over the board, just because of chain of authority. This would be an interim solution where a simple script could be run to generate the email. A template would follow what Marvin (the person) usually sends out http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-kudu-dev/201512.mbox/%3C20151230220215.0C02B189F5%40minotaur.apache.org%3E John > > > John > > - Sam Ruby >
