[jira] [Commented] (WHIMSY-116) Update documentation to add new PMC member

["Sebb (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Sebb commented on WHIMSY-116:
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What did you try in Whimsy, and what exactly did not work?

> Update documentation to add new PMC member
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>
>                 Key: WHIMSY-116
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WHIMSY-116
>             Project: Whimsy
>          Issue Type: Task
>          Components: Roster
>            Reporter: Christopher Tubbs
>
> I tried to use Whimsy to add a new PMC member, but wasn't able to get it to work. I'm a PMC member and an ASF Member, and was performing this because our PMC chair was not immediately available (and also I wanted to learn the process).
> So, I followed the old procedure of updating committee-info.txt with SVN (is that still necessary with Whimsy? It's not clear.) and manually running the ldap scripts, as described on http://www.apache.org/dev/pmc.html
> However, that page seems out of date. It does not describe the correct way to do it with Whimsy, and the instructions for using the ldap scripts no longer work, because the scripts have been "disabled" with a message to use Whimsy.
> (FWIW, I ended up copying the scripts, and commenting out the "exit" line which disabled them. The scripts should probably not be disabled unless Whimsy works in all cases, and should probably remain available as a backup when Whimsy fails.)
> The purpose of this issue is to fix the outdated documentation at http://www.apache.org/dev/pmc.html (assuming Whimsy is working 100%) or to restore the currently documented functionality.



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