This is close: https://whimsy.apache.org/status/
On Sat, Oct 12, 2019, 12:52 Dave Fisher <w...@apache.org> wrote: > 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 > >
