Statement of the problem (by Chris Lambertus):
Our process for tlp creation is to run the script, figure out why half
the steps failed, re-run it a few times until it works, then go do all
the manual mailing list creations and jira and conflience etc. etc.
General outline of the solution being explored (by Sam Ruby):
The goal is to make it so that asf-secretary and pmc-chair people can do
most of the work themselves. The first step will be to have me do the
the tlp requests manually this month (I'm in both groups) with the
infrastructure contractors (primarily @fluxo and @pono) providing
guidance and adjusting the authorizations as required. As soon as it
becomes possible for the secretary and pmc chairs to execute these
tasks, focus will turn to automation and providing a web interface.
Current code base:
https://svn.apache.org/repos/infra/infrastructure/trunk/tlpreq
Secretarial tasks will likely be merged into the board agenda tool, pmc
chair tasks will like be merged into the roster tool.
- Sam Ruby
