On 21 October 2015 at 13:27, Sam Ruby <ru...@intertwingly.net> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 7:52 AM, Mike Kienenberger <mkien...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Rich already made it clear what would be the best improvement and gave >> a specific example, but I'll put it in generic terms. >> >> Show the current count of the PMC members and committers. >> Show the last PMC addition and date. >> Show the last committer addition and date. >> >> That's also all I'm looking for as PMC Chair of MyFaces. I don't >> need this report to tell me if the info came from LDAP or >> committee-info as they should always be the same. If they are out of >> sync, then you can add section with the details for identifying and >> fixing that if you think that's important, but that's not the point of >> the reporter tool. The point of the report also isn't to tell the >> board the exact day someone was added, it is to give the board an idea >> how often the community is growing. Let's not worry about making the >> board report template so accurate and precise and in-depth that it >> stops being useful due to too much information. >> >> I ended up going through and rewriting the membership section for the >> MyFaces October report by hand, defeating the point of using the >> reporter tool to write the boilerplate section for me. > > +1
The proposed version should make this particular editing unnecessary. > I'd suggest that the reporter tool and Whimsy roster tool provide > pointers to each other, where the latter focuses on the differences. That is what I have tried to do in the proposed version - please have a look and see if it makes sense. > I'm working slowly on making the roster tool read/write so that it can > be used instead of the Perl scripts and editing committee-info.txt > directly. The idea is that adding an existing committer to the PMC > should be a matter of a few mouse clicks. > > Examples (currently read-only): > > https://whimsy.apache.org/roster/committee/ > https://whimsy.apache.org/roster/committee/myfaces > > - Sam Ruby
