Items that may be worth including in the board report...
1) GitHub experiment appears to have stalled. In particular, adding a new committer (e.g. Brett) still involves manual intervention by the infrastructure team; and there still isn't an Apache hosted clone of Whimsy. None of this is affecting whimsy development, but is the reason for monthly board reports.
2) Brett and Craig have succeeded pushing changes to GitHub. Changes continue to be automatically deployed, without human intervention[2]
3) Primarily due to the deadlock and authentication problems experienced with the board agenda tool, that tool has been moved over to whimsy-test. It's internal threading model has been converted to processes, and LDAP failover and cache expiration logic has been added. Sebb has been instrumental in this effort. This may ultimately address the problems that Brett saw with missing mail addresses in board reminders.
4) Sebb has moved the Apache phone book over to be based on data produced by whimsy.
5) Status monitoring is now implemented, and continues to be refined. It has already proven to be helpful.
6) As problems with the current secretary mail process seem to not be as prevalent this month, and the move to the new mail system by the infrastructure team isn't imminent, work on this has slowed in favor of other efforts.
7) Initial code has been roughed in for a replacement for the current LDAP Perl scripts used to add committers to a PMC and to modify PMC membership. This effort may be ultimately be superseded Syncope.
- Sam Ruby
