On Tue, 15 Jan 2019 at 03:37, Craig Russell <[email protected]> wrote: > > A couple of thoughts occur to me. > > Most of the agenda actions have been perfectly fine until now.
AFAICT the problems started in Jan 2018. > Maybe it's possible to change the (edit report) function so the user can see > a diff of the agenda prior to committing it and asking for the user to > (commit) or (cancel). That change would solve two issues: > Eliminate disasters like this one where the entire incubator report was > duplicated FTR: it was just the section with the podling reports, headed by a Table of Contents (ToC) > Allow the user to verify that (reflow) actually worked (this is the most > popular (edit report) function for me > > Pending this (or similar) change, I'd be happy disallowing editing the > incubator report, since that is the report that has had (any) problems. I don't know if that is the only report that has had problems. I discovered the issue when looking at the Incubator signoff report [1] and noticed a lot of duplication in the report dates. This turned out to be due to due to duplication of the entire ToC section. It's possible that other sections of the agendas/minutes have been duplicated Sebb. [1] https://whimsy.apache.org/incubator/signoff.cgi > Craig > > On Jan 11, 2019, at 3:47 PM, sebb <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, 11 Jan 2019 at 23:21, Craig Russell <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I believe this mess was caused by Myrle editing the incubator report in > whimsy. The intended change was: > > [X](weex) Willem Ning Jiang > Comments: > + [X](weex) Myrle Krantz > > - [ ](weex) Myrle Krantz > Comments: > > > Can someone please take a look? > > > I know very little about that code and have not actually used the tool > to change a report. > I don't know if it's possible to test locally without committing. > > But I think we need to know what actions were taken apart from editing > the report. > E.g. was it reflowed? > > S. > > > Craig L Russell > Secretary, Apache Software Foundation > [email protected] http://db.apache.org/jdo >
