On 18/02/2009, David Crossley <cross...@apache.org> wrote: > Upayavira wrote: > > David Crossley wrote: > > > Upayavira wrote: > > > > David Crossley wrote: > > > > > > > > > > http://incubator.apache.org/clutch.html > > > > > > > > Could clutch in some way be used to mimic Marvin for the Incubator? > > > > > > > > I for one would really appreciate an email each month saying what > > > > projects need to report. > > > > > > > > Could simply be group1.html, group2.html and group3.html mailed to > > > > general@ rotating every month. > > > > > > The goal of Clutch is to gather data. It is run > > > on an ad hoc basis. > > > > Yes. All I had in mind is that clutch generate three files, month1.txt, > > month2.txt and month3.txt. Then, a separate process could mail > > month($month % 3 +1).txt to general@ every month. Simple, crude, but it > > would work. > > > That is nice. > > Okay, Clutch now re-generates those files every time > it runs. > > report_due_1.txt is for group-1 (Jan,Apr,Jul,Oct) > report_due_2.txt is for group-2 (Feb,May,Aug,Nov) > report_due_3.txt is for group-3 (Mar,Jun,Sep,Dec) > > e.g. cat report_due_2.txt > BlueSky Cassandra Droids ESME Kato Lokahi PDFBox PhotArk Pivot Sling > Stonehenge VCL WSRP4J XAP
[from the peanut gallery:] AFAICS that format will be problematical should a podling have one or more spaces in its name. Also, it would be easier to interpret differences if there is one line per podling. > Please say if you want a different format or > additional text in the files. > > Would you or someone else please handle the cron job > to send the email. > > So projects will then have many ways to know when their > reports are due: > * http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/ReportingSchedule > > * http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/ > > * http://incubator.apache.org/clutch.html > * the commit diffs for the report_due_*.txt > * http://incubator.apache.org/report_due_2.txt etc. > * the automated email each month. > > The remaining problem will be that someone needs to > create the Wiki page at the beginning of each month, > e.g. http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/February2009 > and add the banner, due date, and list of projects. > > For the last few months that has been me. Please don't > rely on that. Anyone can do it. Ditto with running Clutch. > > If someone wants to create a more sophisticated > Marvin-like reminder system, or extend Marvin, then > the main data file generated by Clutch has the > name of the podling's dev list, which reporting group, > and whether they are on monthly reporting. > http://incubator.apache.org/clutch.html#data > Do 'python clutch2data.py' in the top-level of > incubator svn. > > > -David > > > > I guess, by a similar approach, it would be possible to template out the > > wiki page such that a simple cut and paste would get the report page up > > in no time. > > > > Just thoughts about how we could get a quick hit out of the valuable > > data Clutch collects. > > > > Upayavira > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
