Branko Čibej wrote: > sebb wrote: > > Branko Čibej wrote: > >> Daniel Shahaf wrote: > >>> David Crossley wrote: > >>>> > >>>> You are striking the same type of problems that Clutch has > >>>> needed to deal with over the years. In general, the state of > >>>> podling metadata is not reliable. That is something that we > >>>> need to get podling developers interested with. > >>>> > >>> I have a current example. Flex and Wink haven't updated their > >>> podlings.xml entries to > >>> status="graduated" > >>> , therefore certain infra scripts still consider them podlings rather > >>> than PMCs.
These situations cause issues for other volunteers. > >> Nor had PhotArk updated its entry to "retired" until I did that > >> yesterday to get rid of one of the warnings. Those things usually mean that people have not followed the remainder of the steps for graduation or retirement. So i just leave them in that state to remind people. > >> I'm not actually all that worried. The worst that can happen in the case > >> of the voter script is that some votes don't get recorded, or are > >> recorded later than expected. The script does emit warnings if it sees > >> strangeness; I /could/ teach it to send the warnings to the podling's > >> dev list (if known), cc: general@. But I'd rather not open the spam > >> floodgates unless people really want me to. Clutch has been trying to flag those errors too. Occasionally i send some manual postings about these issues. Perhaps both tools listing the inconsistencies will assist. -David > > Why not append the errors to the end of the report? > > Good idea, I'll do that. > > -- Brane --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
