[jira] [Created] (WHIMSY-234) Centralise committee mail_list handling

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

Sebb created WHIMSY-234:
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             Summary: Centralise committee mail_list handling
                 Key: WHIMSY-234
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WHIMSY-234
             Project: Whimsy
          Issue Type: Improvement
            Reporter: Sebb


The committee/podling classes have mail_list methods (in asf/mail.rb) which know about special cases such as whimsy => whimsical.
 Also for non-pmc committees there are some transformations such as tac => travel-assistance@apache.org.

This means that the code that uses committee.mail_list has to take special action when constructing a valid mailing list. At the moment such code is scattered around so there is some repetition. It would be better if the code could be centralised, with various methods for constructing different types of mail address, e.g. private, security, dev, such as is already done by asf/podling.rb.

There is also a need to know how to search for mailing lists, which could be:
 *@tlp.apache.org or ctte-*@apache.org etc.

There are too many places that currently have to know how to process the mail_list output.



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