First let’s discuss the PMC’s purpose: The mission of Apache Whimsy is the creation and maintenance of software related to tools that help automate various administrative tasks or information lookup activities
The current Whimsy software platform is mostly in ruby. Many of the features that Whimsy provides have been deemed to be mission critical and the Board has tasked the Tooling office to build replacements. Other features are also being developed by the Infrastructure team. Here are the sections of Whimsy that are being replaced: 1. The Agenda Tool - nearly ready for full use and retirement of Whimsy’s features. 2. Secretary’s Workbench - work will be starting soon. 3. Roster Tool - infrastructure has this on their agenda. There are many other useful tools on the Whimsy platform. I would like to propose that this PMC start to build a Workbench platform using Python and the ASFQuart framework using practices developed during the creation of the new Board Agenda Tool (svn integration and svelte) and the Apache Trusted Releases platform (uv and storage integration). If the Whimsy team is interested then we can setup a repository, vm host, and start development. Whimsy could also become the home for member developed extras like Daniel’s ASFMM. Looking forward to the group’s response. Best, Dave
