I need some help with tooling

I'm going to update the PMC policy page and would like to update the whimsy tool at the same time. The current roster/pmc tool updates the committee-info.txt file via svn but does not notify anyone except (indirectly via svn) listeners of committers-cvs. Additionally, the tool will need to add

Are the package.json files still needed?

They seem to be rather out of date if they are in use: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/apache/whimsy/master/www/roster/package.json links to non-existent whimsy repo in SVN and https://raw.githubusercontent.com/apache/whimsy/master/www/board/agenda/package.json links to a non-existent Git repo