On Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 12:49 PM, John D. Ament <johndam...@apache.org> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 12:42 PM Sam Ruby <ru...@intertwingly.net> wrote: > >> The first stage would be migrating existing lists to LDAP. This will >> require some small changes to whimsy and the phone book application. >> The whole effort will only take a few hours and be spread over a few >> days elapsed time. >> >> To prepare, we will need to decide who gets to modify these lists, and >> who gets notified. I propose that members of podlings be able to modify >> the list, and the private list associated with that podling be notified >> on changes. Alternate choices would include mentors for the podling, or >> the IPMC. Given that notification facilitates oversight, I encourage >> this to be pushed down to the podling, but will go with whatever the >> consensus turns out to be. > > My vote would be for mentors to be able to do this. The podlings don't > know enough yet to manage this on their own. I would be concerned of > missed process steps if the podling themselves could do it.
See Mark's comment, and my response to it. >> The second stage would be to define an interface for adding (and perhaps >> removing) podlings. This could be limited to the IPMC and the web >> interface could ensure that it is only possible to create entries that >> are present in podlings.xml. >> > > Could this lead to the eventual removal of podlings.xml ? It could lead to where-ever the IPMC wants to go. :-) My preference is that the canonical definition be in SVN, git, LDAP or some such, and that tools like whimsy remain only a convenient mechanism to update these definitions. > Does any of this have a relationship to projects.apache.org ? At a minimum, both would derive information from a common source. My understanding is that the focus of projects.apache.org is to provide a public-facing and read-only interface to this data. The whimsy roster tool would provide an authenticated read-write interface to this data. And a non-exclusive one. Other tools could be written that update that information. - Sam Ruby --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
