I run the script by hand because it requires a password for the svn checkouts.
If you need it to run a full week prior to the podling reports due date, just ask. Sent from my iPhone On Aug 2, 2013, at 5:33 PM, Marvin Humphrey <mar...@rectangular.com> wrote: > Greets, > > "Marvin" sent out report reminders earlier today. Here's my proposed timeline > for preparing our August report: > > Wed August 7 -- Podling reports due by end of day > Tue August 13 -- Mentor signoff due by end of day > Tue August 13 -- Shepherd reviews due by end of day > Tue August 13 -- Summary due by end of day > Wed August 14 -- IPMC Chair submits report (on time!) > Wed August 21 -- Board meeting > > Note that this month's schedule differs from the one I laid out for our July > report, primarily because of a mistake I made last month -- I had thought that > "Marvin" gave podlings a week and a half to submit their reports rather than > only five days. This time I'm proposing that we adhere to Marvin's compressed > schedule -- so podling reports are due in less than a week. > > In the future, I would like to send out podling reminders one week earlier. > That way, podlings will get the same amount of time that TLPs get, while still > allowing the IPMC several days for Mentor signoff and Shepherd review before > the Chair submits the report -- on time for a change, instead of a couple days > late as has been the Incubator's bad habit. > > I believe that changing the timing for reminders will require modifications to > the reminders.pl script (a.k.a. "Marvin"), which is tricky because it looks > like it's hard to run without actually sending email. > > https://svn.apache.org/repos/infra/infrastructure/trunk/tools/board_reminders > > What I'm tempted to do is refactor some of the code in reminders.pl into a > handful of modules which can be run in non-production mode, making it > possible to write some tests and make changes with greater confidence. > Although this would be a fair amount of work, it's probably less in the long > run > than making blind, untestable changes to the current monolithic script and > then cleaning up the huge mess when things go wrong (e.g. because every TLP > receives a reminder with the wrong date). > > Thoughts? > > Marvin Humphrey > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
