Attempting to run the roster tool locally, after having *thought* I set everything up for it, I get:
Unable to find svn checkout for https://svn.apache.org/repos/member_apps >From lib/whimsy/asf/memapps.rb:12 As a specific question and a general one: is there any way to make basic roster functionality degrade gracefully, instead of just dying before it displays even the welcome page? I suppose it's only an issue for local developers, since the server should always have all-the-repos. But it somehow feels like scripts for non-critical data - like member application PDFs - should silently fail unless someone's actually attempting to edit that data. The larger question is: are there scripts that could degrade when an ASF::SVN call fails, instead of just barfing? I.e. catch whatever errors might happen, and then degrade performance when attempting to use those resources later, instead of completely dying. I guess this is just a general reminder to ponder how we do holistic error checking. Anyway, this probably isn't important, and after checking out member_apps, my whimsy.local/roster now dies with a 502 error, so there's something else to fix instead! 8-) -- - Shane Whimsy PMC The Apache Software Foundation
