Hi Shane, Thanks. I feel bad to have chased a couple of reports and then have them be blocked. We will see what happens.
It would be good to have a better indication about what’s up. Perhaps a general UI message in Whimsy to indicate when one of the backing stores is not available? Regards, Dave > On Oct 12, 2019, at 10:22 AM, Shane Curcuru <a...@shanecurcuru.org> wrote: > > Dave Fisher wrote on 2019-10-12 12:23PM EDT: >> Hi - >> >> I’m concerned that PMC Chairs and Officers will attempt to submit Board >> Reports and that Board Members will review while the SVN cutover occurs. >> >> Has any thought gone into this? What does Whimsy do if SVN is down? > > Whimsy attempts to store many things locally, and has an offline mode > where you can do most work completely offline for a while, then commit > everything later. In normal use, most approvals/comments are all cached > for later commit together. Submitting new reports or agenda items works > live; when you post, it attempts the SVN update immediately. > > If someone has updated the board/agenda page while SVN is up, then can > keep reading the locally cached and parsed agenda, and approve or make > comments. But they won't be able to check them in, or submit updates to > project reports while the svn server is down. > > Unfortunately the error message when attempting to 'refresh' a > previously loaded agenda is not very helpful: it brings up a browser > dialog (Chrome/Mac) that says this (just tried it right now): > > Exception > #<Errno::ENOENT: No such file or directory @rb_sysopen - /tmp/<temp path > name>/board_agenda_2019_10_16.txt> > > > -- > > - Shane > Director & Member > The Apache Software Foundation
