On Tue, 2020-05-05 at 10:18 +0200, Carsten Ziegeler wrote:
> Right, thanks Robert
>
> So the question is, whether we want or need to keep three lists.
> We have:
> - the reporter data
> - the releases page
> - the downloads list/page
>
> I'm usually not updating the reporter data on a release and it seems
> others are not doing that either. The same happens sometimes to the
> web
> site, especially the download list.
> Bottom line, the three sources get out of sync today.
Well, that's a shame :-)
>
> Automation and generation brings up another problem: technical names
> vs
> human friendly names. If you look at the reporter data, we have there
> "Servlets Post 2.3.6" as well as "org.apache.sling.servlets.post
> 2.3.8".
>
> Now for all user facing info, I think the human friendly names are
> much
> better ("Servlets Post x.y.z").
+1 on human-friendly names. I think that the if we get a hold of the
jar files we can also get the friendly name from the pom or from the
MANIFEST. "Just" a little bit more work.
Thanks,
Robert
>
> Overall, this can become a very complicated thing. I'm not saying we
> should not solve it, but I think there is more to it than just
> identifying the single source of truth
>
> Carsten
>
>
> On 05.05.2020 10:05, Robert Munteanu wrote:
> > Here's what I dug up on that (emphasis mine)
> >
> > The PMC MUST submit a quarterly report to the board [1]. The board
> > reporting guidelines [2] have a REQUIRED section titled "When did
> > the
> > project last make any releases?".
> >
> > In [1] it is mentioned that (the PMC) CAN use the Apache Committee
> > Reporter tool to simplify some data collection for (the) report.
> >
> > We also have an item in our release management document [3] that
> > mentions the reporter service.
> >
> > What I take out of this is that the reporter tool is not mandatory,
> > but
> > keeping a record of releases so they are included in the board
> > report
> > it. In practice, I have been using the reporter tool to generate
> > the
> > board report, and not the list on our website.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Robert
> >
> > [1]:
> > https://www.apache.org/dev/pmc.html#ensure-the-projects-quarterly-board-report-is-submitted
> > [2]: https://www.apache.org/foundation/board/reporting
> > [3]:
> > https://sling.apache.org/documentation/development/release-management.html#promoting-the-release-1
> >
