Thank goodness I copied the content here as Whimsy lost it for me (I'll try and reproduce when I have more time and report the bug).
Ross From: Ross Gardler Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2015 12:04 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Board report Thanks to Sam for his notes for the board report this month, and Craig for expanding on the MFA issue - very helpful. I submitted the following text - feedback welcome. ## Description: Whimsy is a set of tools and a website to access them that help automate various ASF administrative tasks or information lookup activities. ## Issues: We are currently working with infra to conduct a limited experiment in using GitHub as our primary development location. This experiment is conditioned upon several factors: * This is ONLY available to the Whimsy PMC * The Whimsy project reports monthly on progress and issues surfaced * The primary goal is to determine if the ASF can capture and retain (all) necessary information related to our goals of establishing provenance of any work performed. Work is progressing. It is causing some churn for the infra team who are needing to rework a considerable amount of their existing GitHub support (see infra report). The infra team feel that it is necessary to enforce multi-factor authentication. This has met some (seemingly) mild resistance within the Whimsy community as it potentially impacts contributors with an existing GitHub account used in other contexts. This does not impact other projects using GitHub as a mirror. ## Activity: Incubator agenda reminders discussion appears to have petered out. Board agenda reminders discussion never quite got off the ground - at least not on dev@whimsical; there was a brief discussion on board@ New repository on GitHub: https://github.com/apache/whimsy a) ASF hosted clone is not yet available b) whimsical site (via gitpubsub) is not yet set up c) auto deploy (also via gitpubsub) is not yet set up d) updated VM (based on Ubuntu 14.04) is available, but set up is not yet complete. Development: a) updates to ICLA-lint (clr) and public JSON data (sebb). b) board agenda reminders is largely complete (rubys). c) exploratory rewrite of secretary mail function has been posted in a branch (rubys). ## Health report: The community remains small and focused, there is active oversight from numerous PMC members on both the project code and the GitHub experiment. ## PMC and Committer changes: - Currently 10 committers, all of whom are PMC members. - Craig L Russell was added on Sun Dec 13 2015 ## Releases: There are no formal releases of Whimsy code, although it is frequently deployed on ASF hardware. ## Mailing list activity: - [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>: - 15 subscribers (up 3 in the last 3 months): - 282 emails sent to list (100 in previous quarter) ## JIRA activity: - 22 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 7 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
