On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 6:51 PM, Sam Ruby <[email protected]> wrote: > Statement of the problem (by Chris Lambertus): > > Our process for tlp creation is to run the script, figure out why half the > steps failed, re-run it a few times until it works, then go do all the > manual mailing list creations and jira and conflience etc. etc. > > General outline of the solution being explored (by Sam Ruby): > > The goal is to make it so that asf-secretary and pmc-chair people can do > most of the work themselves. The first step will be to have me do the the > tlp requests manually this month (I'm in both groups) with the > infrastructure contractors (primarily @fluxo and @pono) providing guidance > and adjusting the authorizations as required. As soon as it becomes > possible for the secretary and pmc chairs to execute these tasks, focus will > turn to automation and providing a web interface. > > Current code base: > > https://svn.apache.org/repos/infra/infrastructure/trunk/tlpreq > > Secretarial tasks will likely be merged into the board agenda tool, pmc > chair tasks will like be merged into the roster tool.
I've come to the conclusion that it isn't practical to debugg and rewrite a script that I don't have the authority to run. After talking to Ross about this, I'm suspending working on this item. - Sam Ruby
