sebb wrote on 5/26/17 5:05 AM: > I have been making some changes to the script that parses board meeting > minutes. > It tries to collate all the entries that relate to PMCs (and podlings). > > At present this is done using internally-defined string substitutions. > These have to be updated as and when new aliases (e.g. different > capitalisation) are noticed. > > It would be better if it could get the info from a file. > The podlings.xml file has details of all podlings, past and present. > For the current PMCs, that info is available in committee-info. > AFAICT there is no such data file for retired PMCs. > > I wonder whether anyone else thinks there is a need for such data for > PMCs, and if so, where it belongs and how it is maintained? > > S.
Yes, if you're willing to work on this, it will be valuable for recordkeeping and people looking for historical data about communities. For work like this, it doesn't matter who does it as long as: - It's easy to maintain, especially the raw data. Thus I'd expect to see the raw data in a static file in a repository; preferably a non-project repository (Even Whimsy might go to the attic someday). - Historical data is stored statically in an easy to extract format. Thus it would be nice to have a static mapping file that's easy to understand, outside of the core code. Right now, there are a bunch of bits inside different ruby code, which is hard to find for non-Whimsy developers. - As a courtesy, once done, provide a pointer to docs to the Secretary, who oversees ASF recordkeeping. But knowing how you work, you're already doing those things! 8-) - Shane -- - Shane https://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/resources
