On 21 March 2016 at 20:32, Jim Jagielski <[email protected]> wrote:
> I do, but I'm still unclear on dealing w/ the GH workflow.
>
> Can I just do it via svn, or even *our* git and not deal
> w/ GH at all?

You can certainly just work on a clone of our Git; no need to use
GitHub (once you are set up correctly).

>> On Mar 21, 2016, at 4:19 PM, Sam Ruby <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 3:14 PM, Jim Jagielski <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Well, it looks like the format has been changing... so I
>>> can see concerns.
>>>
>>> But really, I'm not sure why it needs to be so
>>> "standardized" esp when it's mucking around with
>>> stuff it has no reason to. It's adding a line, so
>>> I don't see the reason why it has to "recreate" the
>>> file in the 1st place. Either it finds where a new
>>> proxy needs to go and adds it there, or find the
>>> line that needs to be updated, and modified *that*
>>> line, or it finds the line it needs to delete
>>> and trashes it.
>>>
>>> If a tool is updating a file which is also mostly edited
>>> by humans, it should be pretty lax about enforcing
>>> a "format" imo. If it doesn't need to mess with
>>> a line, it should leave it alone or output it
>>> exactly as it was read...
>>
>> Originally, this was a sorted index of files in the associated
>> proxies-received directory.
>>
>> I'm OK with the idea of requirements changing and/or this being a bug
>> in the first place.
>>
>> None of us like the idea of single maintainer tools.  In this case,
>> what we have here is a small, standalone tool.  After the dust settles
>> (i.e., after the meeting is over), anybody want to take a crack at
>> improving it?
>>
>> Note: improving it could mean rewriting in Python and moving to Steve,
>> I don't care.  What I do care about is having multiple maintainers.
>>
>> - Sam Ruby
>>
>>>> On Mar 21, 2016, at 3:02 PM, Sam Ruby <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I think having a proxy web interface continues to be a good idea; but we 
>>>> need to come to a common understanding of the data format.  Too late for 
>>>> this meeting, but I'm inclined to change to a JSON format for future 
>>>> meetings.
>>>>
>>>> Here's the relevant lines:
>>>>
>>>> https://github.com/apache/whimsy/blob/c5329abf90371ff2377bcb6f087abb59605bcea4/www/members/proxy.cgi#L163
>>>>
>>>> Most importantly, lines that do NOT match /   \S.*\(\S+\)$/ are lost.
>>>>
>>>> This is clearly problematic.
>>>>
>>>> Suggestions welcome!
>>>>
>>>> - Sam Ruby
>

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