On 19 October 2015 at 00:44, Hervé BOUTEMY <herve.bout...@free.fr> wrote:
>> ---------- cut here ----------
>> ## PMC changes:
>>
>>  - Currently 42 PMC members listed in committee-info.txt.
>>  - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
>>  - Last PMC addition was Dana Freeborn at Fri Mar 27 2015
>>
>> ## LDAP unix group changes:
>>
>>  - Currently 44 members
>>  - Radu Manole was added on Tue Oct 06 2015
>> ---------- cut here ----------
>>
>> Would that satisfy everyone?
> IMHO, making explicit which "LDAP unix group" is looked at would be useful

There is only one LDAP unix group for each PMC.

> Since I still don't understand if it's the committers group or PMC group
> (I expect it to be the committers group)

The committers group maintained using modify_unix_group.pl

The committee group is maintained using modify_committee.pl

> and if oodt-pmc LDAP does not have the same count as PMC members listed in
> committee-info.txt, a warning should be added in the first section

Such a warning does not belong in the report to the board, so does not
belong in the report template.
It might be worth adding a warning to the previous LDAP section.

> Regards,
>
> Hervé
>
> Le dimanche 18 octobre 2015 14:19:00 sebb a écrit :
>> The app currently says for OODT:
>>
>> ---------- cut here ----------
>> ## PMC changes:
>>
>>  - Currently 42 PMC members.
>>  - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
>>  - Last PMC addition was Dana Freeborn at Fri Mar 27 2015
>>
>>
>>  - Currently 44 committers and 43 PMC members.
>>  - Radu Manole was added to the PMC on Sun Oct 11 2015
>>  - Radu Manole was added as a committer on Tue Oct 06 2015
>> ---------- cut here ----------
>>
>> Note that there are either 42 or 43 PMC members. (*)
>> I think the above is a lot more confusing than the previous version which
>> was:
>>
>> ---------- cut here ----------
>> ## PMC changes:
>>
>>  - Currently 42 PMC members.
>>  - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
>>  - Last PMC addition was Dana Freeborn at Fri Mar 27 2015
>>
>> ## LDAP changes:
>>
>>  - Currently 44 committers and 43 committee group members.
>>  - Radu Manole was added to the committee group on Sun Oct 11 2015
>>  - Radu Manole was added as a committer on Tue Oct 06 2015
>> ---------- cut here ----------
>>
>> As I already wrote, there is now no reason for the LDAP committee
>> changes to be listed in the board report.
>>
>> So what I propose is:
>>
>> ---------- cut here ----------
>> ## PMC changes:
>>
>>  - Currently 42 PMC members listed in committee-info.txt.
>>  - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
>>  - Last PMC addition was Dana Freeborn at Fri Mar 27 2015
>>
>> ## LDAP unix group changes:
>>
>>  - Currently 44 members
>>  - Radu Manole was added on Tue Oct 06 2015
>> ---------- cut here ----------
>>
>> Would that satisfy everyone?
>>
>> (*) that is because Radu has not yet been added to committee-info.txt
>> so is not yet officially a member of the PMC
>>
>> On 18 October 2015 at 10:12, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On 18 October 2015 at 09:31, Hervé BOUTEMY <herve.bout...@free.fr> wrote:
>> >> from my understanding:
>> >> - PMC composition is available in 2 forms: committee-info.txt (= golden
>> >> source) and LDAP xxx-pmc group
>> >
>> > The *only* record of current PMC membership is committee-info.txt.
>> >
>> > The LDAP committee group (modify_committee.pl) is only used for
>> > granting karma, e.g. to PMC-private SVN and dist/release.
>> >
>> > They should generally have the same members, since all (and perhaps
>> > only) PMC members should have the karma.
>> >
>> > However this is not always the case, and it's important not to confuse the
>> > two.>
>> >> - committers list is available only in LDAP as xxx group
>> >
>> > The LDAP unix group (modify_unix_group.pl) generally grants karma to SVN.
>> > However not every PMC uses it - e.g. Commons and Subversion allow any
>> > ASF committer to commit.
>> >
>> >> then instead of displaying:
>> >> * PMC from committee-info
>> >> * LDAP info: PMC + committers
>> >>
>> >> it would be easier to understand if the structure was more:
>> >> * PMC info from committee-info (and warning if LDAP PMC info is not
>> >> consistent)
>> >
>> > The consistency check is already done by Whimsy, but I suppose it
>> > could be repeated here.
>> > Or the Whimsy page could be linked if there was a discrepancy.
>> >
>> >> * committers info (no need to explain that it comes from LDAP)
>> >>
>> >> WDYT?
>> >
>> > That is basically what it did say before the recent change.
>> >
>> > Except that I do think it's necessary to explain that the committer
>> > (modify_unix_group.pl) info is just an LDAP group.
>> >
>> > There is no direct relationship with committers on a project in general.
>> > Commons and Subversion don't use the group for commit karma.
>> > Also it's relatively rare that people are dropped from the unix group,
>> > even if they have stopped contributing.
>> > So the group does not have any bearing on the current committer base.
>> >
>> > Additions to the unix group generally are associated with new
>> > committers, so that is probably worth reporting.
>> >
>> >> Hervé
>> >>
>> >> Le vendredi 16 octobre 2015 23:24:16 sebb a écrit :
>> >>> On 16 October 2015 at 21:08, Pierre Smits <pierre.sm...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> >>> > I feel confident that anybody objects to ambiguous information, and
>> >>> > that
>> >>> > no
>> >>> > one will object to improvement.
>> >>>
>> >>> I do object to conflating LDAP committee and PMC membership.
>> >>> The two are completely distinct (although related).
>> >>>
>> >>> This is why I changed the text to show LDAP committee rather than PMC
>> >>> a while back.
>> >>> At the time, the tool did not analyse the actual PMC membership, only
>> >>> LDAP.
>> >>>
>> >>> However it does now, so the output shows them as distinct items.
>> >>>
>> >>> The LDAP committee information is not really relevant to the board, so
>> >>> could now be dropped from the report skeleton.
>> >>>
>> >>> But I think it is completely wrong to imply that changes to the LDAP
>> >>> committee group have any bearing on PMC membership.
>> >>>
>> >>> > Best regards,
>> >>> >
>> >>> > Pierre Smits
>> >>> >
>> >>> > *OFBiz Extensions Marketplace*
>> >>> > http://oem.ofbizci.net/oci-2/
>> >>> >
>> >>> > On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 8:20 PM, Rich Bowen <rbo...@rcbowen.com>
> wrote:
>> >>> >> Although I acknowledge that the LDAP membership and the project
>> >>> >> membership
>> >>> >> might be different in certain weird edge cases, for the purpose of
>> >>> >> actually
>> >>> >> generating a board report, I find the current formatting confuses me
>> >>> >> Every
>> >>> >> Single Time.
>> >>> >>
>> >>> >> Viz:
>> >>> >>
>> >>> >> ## PMC changes:
>> >>> >>  - Currently 10 PMC members.
>> >>> >>  - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
>> >>> >>  - Last PMC addition was Jean-Fran=C3=A7ois Maury at Mon Apr 07 2014
>> >>> >>
>> >>> >> ## LDAP changes:
>> >>> >>  - Currently 26 committers and 10 committee group members.
>> >>> >>  - No new committee group members added in the last 3 months
>> >>> >>  - No new committers added in the last 3 months
>> >>> >>  - Last committer addition was Lyor Goldstein at Thu Apr 30 2015
>> >>> >>
>> >>> >> So, I can tease out of that there's 26 committers, and 10 PMC
>> >>> >> members,
>> >>> >> and
>> >>> >> the latest additions were Jean Francois on April 7, and Lyor on April
>> >>> >> 30.
>> >>> >> The rest of that phrasing is confusing to me. committee vs committer
>> >>> >> and
>> >>> >> LDAP vs ... whatever. Not sure.
>> >>> >>
>> >>> >> Does anybody object to me reformatting this a little, so that it
>> >>> >> won't
>> >>> >> confuse me next month?
>> >>> >>
>> >>> >> --Rich
>> >>> >>
>> >>> >>
>> >>> >> --
>> >>> >> Rich Bowen - rbo...@rcbowen.com - @rbowen
>> >>> >> http://apachecon.com/ - @apachecon
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