Items that may be worth including in the board report...
1) Many/(most?) committers are now authorized to push to the GitHub
repository. MATT is now online, but there appears to still be a manual
step required to identify which GitHub ID is to be associated with your
Apache account. This presumably will be ironed out over time, and at
the moment only represents a point of confusion, not a stumbling block.
2) In addition to myself, two committers (Chris and Sebb) have succeeded
at actually pushing to GitHub. Also two committers (Craig and Sebb) are
able to run individual tools on their own development machines[1].
Their changes are automatically deployed, without human intervention[2].
3) Set up of the whimsy-test VM has begun in earnest. To the extent
humanly possible, everything is either provisioned through Puppet or
deployed automatically from the GitHub repository[3].
4) Status monitoring is beginning to be roughed in[4]. At the moment,
it is a simple ping endpoint. This will be expanded to provide fine
grained status of the various applications, coupled with infrastructure
alerts.
5) A replacement for the Secretary mail tool is nearing completion. It
should be considerably more responsive and reliable than the current
tool[5], which required multiple manual cleanup of intermediate svn
directories this month. The hope is that with this version of the tool,
Craig will be able to develop, locally test, and deploy improvements
such as adding buttons and tweaking the content of emails produced.
6) Additional items planned for the next month (or so) include:
a) Flipping the "big switch" to enable synchronization between GitHub
and ASF hosted repositories.
b) Moving the board agenda tool over to what is now called
whimsy-test.
c) Changing the DNS so that that what is not whimsy-test will become
the new whimsy. The old whimsy will remain around under a new
name for a few months.
- Sam Ruby
[1] https://github.com/apache/whimsy/blob/master/README.md
[2] https://github.com/apache/whimsy/blob/master/DEVELOPMENT.md
[3] https://github.com/apache/whimsy/blob/master/DEPLOYMENT.md
[4] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WHIMSY-35
[5]
https://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/whimsical-dev/201601.mbox/%3C5693CEFE.9020608%40intertwingly.net%3E
