Le lundi 18 mai 2015 14:03:39 Sergio Fernández a écrit : > Hi guys, > > I have to admit I'm a bit lost with the development here; I do not have > that much time, things change quite fast and discussions are a bit hard to > follow. Hervé has done a great work; so some guidelines where I can > contribute would help me a lot. > > One question Hervé, do all rdf files at > https://projects-new.apache.org/doap/ are automatically generated or copied > from svn? these ones are automatically generated from committer-info.txt by parsecommittees.py
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/comdev/projects.apache.org/scripts/import/parsecommittees.py what I still don't know is what is expected handwritten data in the PMC data files and if we really should try to generate such pmc.rdf files instead of reading content from http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/infrastructure/site-tools/trunk/projects/pmc_list.xml I try to maintain ideas and comments in "Work in Progres" section of about page: https://projects-new.apache.org/about.html Regards, Hervé > > Cheers, > > On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 4:42 PM, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 16 May 2015 at 08:22, Hervé BOUTEMY <herve.bout...@free.fr> wrote: > > > Le samedi 16 mai 2015 00:36:03 sebb a écrit : > > >> On 15 May 2015 at 22:08, Hervé BOUTEMY <herve.bout...@free.fr> wrote: > > >> > Le vendredi 15 mai 2015 14:02:52 sebb a écrit : > > >> >> On 14 May 2015 at 23:38, Hervé BOUTEMY <herve.bout...@free.fr> > > > > wrote: > > >> >> > Hi, > > >> >> > > > >> >> > I seriously updated content: > > >> >> > - *every* TLP is listed, even when no DOAP file has been written > > > > [1] > > > > >> >> > - TLP project can be displayed, even without DOAP and provide link > > > > to > > > > >> >> > every > > >> >> > sub-project [2] > > >> >> > - when a TLP has a "main sub-project" with its DOAP file, data > > > > from TLP > > > > >> >> > and > > >> >> > data from DOAP subproject are clearly separate [3] > > >> >> > > >> >> The URLs [1] [2] [3] use the same namespace for PMCs and projects as > > >> >> well as generic queries. > > >> >> This may cause name clashes in future - e.g. a PMC called "numbers" > > >> >> would clash with the "numbers" view of the data. > > >> > > > >> > not exactly: [1] is project*s*.html while the 2 others are > > > > project.html > > > > >> > so no clash between projects listing type and project/PMC > > >> > > >> Ah, OK, I'd not noticed the subtle difference. > > >> > > >> However there is still a potential name clash: the Ant PMC is not the > > >> same as the Ant project produced by the Ant PMC. > > > > > > yes, even if Ant is one of the few committees that explicitely makes a > > > difference between the committee and the project even if they share the > > > > same > > > > > name > > > > > >> >> It would be better to use distinct namespaces for distinct types of > > > > item. > > > > >> > I don't think a clash between a PMC and a project can happen: if they > > > > have > > > > >> > the same id, it should be TLP's PMC, isn't it? > > >> > > >> No, they are not the same thing. > > >> A project is not a PMC, though they may have the same name. > > >> > > >> A PMC is a group of people; > > > > > > ok > > > question: are committers a second group of people attached to a PMC? > > > > Not always. > > The committers LDAP groups are basically used to grant permission to > > access code repos. > > Not all PMCs use them, for example Subversion (and more recently > > Commons) allow any ASF committer (another LDAP group) write access to > > their source code. > > > > Incubator committer groups are not defined in LDAP but have the same > > purpose as the LDAP ones. > > > > > To me, > > > that's the case, even if some projects have their own committers list > > > > (like > > > > > incubator projects, or I suppose the lucene-* or hive-hcatalog or > > > > xmlgraphics- > > > > > fop & xmlgraphics-batik LDAP groups representing projects that didn't > > > > write > > > > > DOAP file) > > > see http://people.apache.org/committers-by-project.html > > > > The lucene/hive/etc groups are historic and AIUI are deprecated > > because of the overhead of maintainance etc. > > It is much preferred to use social means to control who is "allowed" > > to update code, as is done by Subversion and Commons. > > > > > I suppose we could display the difference when some projects have their > > > > own > > > > > committers list that is different from the TLP's committers list > > > > Not sure the distinction is useful. > > The current people site just displays the membership of the various > > different groups; it is up to the reader to know what the group does. > > > > >> a project is a software artifact. > > > > > > ok, > > > that's the classical way IT people talk, even if that's not the way > > > > business > > > > > people talk: I think this is a cause for major misunderstandings between > > > > devs > > > > > and business, but that's a larger problem than ASF's internals we're > > > > working > > > > > on :) > > > > It's not just IT people - in the UK at least, one can refer to a > > "woodworking project" . > > > > > what is confusing, IMHO, is that we tell that a TLP == a PMC > > > and a PMC != projects > > > > it is a project management committee, not a project. > > > > > then a TLP != project: which in full words is "a Top Level Project is > > > > not a > > > > > project": confusing > > > > I don't think TLP is a synonym for PMC; they are different types of > > entity. > > However the terms are often used as if they are interchangeable. > > > > A software project (releaseable source code) usually starts via the > > Incubator. > > If it generates enough interest and community it will generally become > > a TLP overseen by a PMC. > > But it might become a project run by an existing PMC. > > > > > I'll create committee.html to display PMC (or "TLP") information and let > > > projects link to the committee: that should be easy to do and revert if > > > > we're > > > > > not happy with the result > > > > Good. > > > > Each PMC page also needs to include links to the project(s) it is > > responsible for. > > > > > notice that https://projects-new.apache.org/projects.html?pmc is > > > > confusing > > > > > with this definition in place: TLP (ie PMC with our definition) icons > > > are > > > displayed against projects > > > If not too risky, I'll update this part too when trying committee.html > > > > > > > > > one good thing with committee.html is that we'll be able to display > > > > special > > > > > committees > > > > > >> >> > This makes more clear what DOAP is used for (and why we need > > > > projects > > > > >> >> > hand- > > >> >> > writing some data, but not everything) > > >> >> > > > >> >> > I didn't update target doap urls [4] since I don't know what > > > > precisely > > > > >> >> > to > > >> >> > do: copy doap files that were processed, in appropriate directory, > > > > and > > > > >> >> > with consistent filename than generated json? > > >> >> > > >> >> What are the target DOAP files used for? > > >> > > > >> > I don't know: I coded what I understood from discussion with Sergio > > >> > Fernández But I admit I don't really know if this is a good idea or > > > > not > > > > >> >> Where do they originate? > > >> > > > >> > {tlp-id}/pmc.rdf is generated with info parsed from > > > > committee-info.txt by > > > > http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/comdev/projects.apache.org/scripts/import/par > > > > >> > secommittees.py?view=markup (with the help of > > >> > http://www.apache.org/#projects-list scraped info for short > > > > description) > > > > >> > And the idea behind rdf copy was just to copy files in a uniform > > > > location > > > > >> > from > > > > https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/infrastructure/site-tools/trunk/projects > > > > >> > /files.xml to ease DOAP finding just an idea > > >> > > > >> > Regards, > > >> > > > >> > Hervé > > >> > > > >> >> > Feedback expected :) > > >> >> > > > >> >> > Regards, > > >> >> > > > >> >> > Hervé > > >> >> > > > >> >> > > > >> >> > [1] https://projects-new.apache.org/projects.html?pmc > > >> >> > > > >> >> > [2] https://projects-new.apache.org/project.html?commons > > >> >> > > > >> >> > [3] https://projects-new.apache.org/project.html?ant > > >> >> > > > >> >> > [4] https://projects-new.apache.org/doap/
