I haven’t been paying a lot of attention, but I’m curious about why Whimsy is being replaced and why the desire to move away from Ruby.
Harbs > On Jul 31, 2025, at 8:36 PM, Dave Fisher <w...@apache.org> wrote: > > First let’s discuss the PMC’s purpose: > > The mission of Apache Whimsy is the creation and maintenance of software > related to tools that help automate various administrative tasks or > information > lookup activities > > The current Whimsy software platform is mostly in ruby. > > Many of the features that Whimsy provides have been deemed to be mission > critical and the Board has tasked the Tooling office to build replacements. > Other features are also being developed by the Infrastructure team. > > Here are the sections of Whimsy that are being replaced: > > 1. The Agenda Tool - nearly ready for full use and retirement of Whimsy’s > features. > 2. Secretary’s Workbench - work will be starting soon. > 3. Roster Tool - infrastructure has this on their agenda. > > There are many other useful tools on the Whimsy platform. > > I would like to propose that this PMC start to build a Workbench platform > using Python and the ASFQuart framework using practices developed during the > creation of the new Board Agenda Tool (svn integration and svelte) and the > Apache Trusted Releases platform (uv and storage integration). > > If the Whimsy team is interested then we can setup a repository, vm host, and > start development. > > Whimsy could also become the home for member developed extras like Daniel’s > ASFMM. > > Looking forward to the group’s response. > > Best, > Dave
