On Wed, 14 Oct 2020 at 16:51, Daniel Gruno <humbed...@apache.org> wrote: > > On 14/10/2020 16.48, Matt Sicker wrote: > > Can any of this DNS info be driven by LDAP? I'm no sysadmin, but > > aren't they both distributed directory protocols essentially? I've > > seen DNS-related schemas for LDAP which makes me think they can > > integrate, but again, I'm no sysadmin. :) > > LDAP records for projects are generally wiped when a project retires. > IF someone wanted to put some work into whimsy to maybe punt it to, > let's say ou=retired,ou=groups,dc=apache,dc=org instead, maybe we could > work with that.
Might make more sense to have a list of projects, and update the status when they retire. > But I'd be perfectly happy with the text file I have now :) How about using committee-info.yaml instead? > > > > On Wed, 14 Oct 2020 at 04:13, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> [Try again with corrected Whimsy email] > >> > >> Seems to me it might be better for Whimsy to update the following file: > >> > >> https://svn.apache.org/repos/private/committers/board/committee-info.yaml > >> > >> Whimsy already updates this when PMCs are created. > >> > >> S. > >> > >> On Wed, 14 Oct 2020 at 07:49, Daniel Gruno <humbed...@apache.org> wrote: > >>> > >>> Hi whimsy folks and secretary, > >>> While sorting out some automated sorting of our DNS entries, I got to > >>> working on a list of retired projects out of necessity, as it occurred > >>> to me we don't do a very good job of keeping track of it after the board > >>> has retired a project. The file (infra auth required) is at > >>> https://svn.apache.org/repos/infra/infrastructure/trunk/tlpreq/retired.txt > >>> and has a simple "project # comment" syntax. > >>> > >>> Would it be possible for whimsy/secretary to add new entries as they > >>> happen? This would not only help us keep track of DNS entries, but also > >>> help infra assess which resources belong to retired projects and need > >>> dismantling. > >>> > >>> WDYT? > >>> There is no rush on this, we can manually add new entries, but it would > >>> be a nice addition if we could automate it during board meetings. > >>> > >>> With regards, > >>> Daniel on behalf of ASF Infra. > > > > > > >
