Re: Release Oversight

[Matthieu Riou <ma...@offthelip.org>]

I agree with Leo, a combination of e-mail and archived documentation would
really be great and a time saver. Thanks for taking care of this!

Matthieu

On Dec 30, 2007 2:37 AM, Leo Simons <ma...@leosimons.com> wrote:

> On Dec 29, 2007, at 11:27 PM, Robert Burrell Donkin wrote:
> > i'm a little worried about oversight of dist/incubator. incubator is a
> > big group and there are lots of podlings.
>
> Yeah, I share the concern. I think we have 25 incubating projects at
> the moment. We *have* to fundamentally change how we do releases at
> some point.
>
> > i've been thinking about using a scanner on minotaur to collect
> > information and collate it into a document. i had thought about
> > running it monthly and posting it to this list but it might be long so
> > this seems a little intrusive.
>
> *shrug*. The upside of dumping stuff to people in e-mail is that it
> is most likely they look at it.
>
> > i now wonder whether it might be better
> > to check the document into the incubator site as public documentation.
> > each month, i'd generate a new monthly report, add it to the site and
> > then post a summary email. (it's not as much work as it sounds since
> > it should all be scriptable.) this means that a record of monthly
> > distribution reports would be created in subversion and publically
> > available from the site.
>
> That sounds good, too. I guess if it were me I'd make the email
> actually contain the full report, too, for maximum social engineering
> benefit. Or otherwise perhaps some facebook-style teaser, like
> "project X has had suspicious-looking artifacts for Y months now,
> perhaps you should read the <full report>?".
>
> > opinions?
>
> Go! :-)
>
> - Leo
>
>
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Re: Release Oversight

[Robert Burrell Donkin <ro...@gmail.com>]

On Jan 3, 2008 12:25 PM, Matthieu Riou <ma...@offthelip.org> wrote:
> I agree with Leo, a combination of e-mail and archived documentation would
> really be great and a time saver. Thanks for taking care of this!

i've made a start on this. i've committed two prototype scripts ([1]
and [2]). [1] connects to people.apache.org and runs [2]. [2] scans
and sums directories then returns results as xml.

my current plan is to process the output by:

1. parsing into xml document(s)
2. saving documents into dated files
3. creating detached signatures for documents
4. add all to subversion

this will create a record of the contents of the directories (at the
time the scripts were run) together with their sums. the signature
will allow these documents to be verified independently of subversion.

phase 2 will be to create a script that loads two xml documents,
creates diffs then outputs an xml document detailing the differences.

phase 3 will be to create xsl scripts that convert the xml diff into
txt (for mailing) and xml suitable as input for anakia

phase 4 will be to glue everything together with ant tasks

but this isn't set in stone so please jump in with suggestions,
improvement, fatal flaws (other than my lack of python-foo ;-) and so
on

and if anyone wants to have a crack at any of the other bits, please jump in

- robert

[1] http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/public/trunk/connect.py
[2] http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/public/trunk/scanner.py

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