As an immediate start to having a tool to support mentors and TLPs you might want to consider providing a Rat service. Rat is already very useful.
Sent from my Windows Phone ________________________________ From: Daniel Gruno<mailto:humbed...@apache.org> Sent: 8/4/2015 4:15 AM To: general@incubator.apache.org<mailto:general@incubator.apache.org> Subject: Re: Reform of Incubator {was; [DISCUSSION] Graduate Ignite from the Apache Incubator) On 2015-08-04 13:01, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: > On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 8:33 PM, Roman Shaposhnik <ro...@shaposhnik.org> wrote: >> ...Which would be totally fine and gets us back to the point Daniel and I >> were >> discussing: a release compliance team (horrible name, I know) as part of >> ASF.... > IMO it's not a team that's needed, just a clear and "modular" release > checklist. > > By modular I mean something like our maturity model [1] where each > item is atomic and numbered so one could say "this release doesn't > comply with RM-42" and everybody knows what it's about. > > And there's no inventing new checklist items unless they are approved > by the PMC who owns the checklist. > > IMO the Incubator PMC can very much own this checklist, and I > volunteer to contribute to creating it. > > We do have a starting point at > http://incubator.apache.org/guides/release.html but the release > checklist might need more explanations, as footnotes, and its own page > to keep the noise low. > Hi Bertrand, If interested, I would very much like to work with you on perhaps turning this into a sort of 'online compliance check' where podlings could upload a tarball or some such, and the service would scan it for compliance, go through the checklist, and report back which elements are compliant and which are not. I think that this, while not being 100% accurate, would save a lot of time and aggravation when dealing with the initial release candidates, and save us a lot of time by automating what we tend to spend quite a lot of time doing manually. This won't solve everything, but it would really cut down on the time that is, in my opinion, wasted on getting a release through the IPMC, while still retaining the policies and rules we need in order to comply with our legal requirements. With regards, Daniel. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
