On 01-08-2005 14:07, "Geir Magnusson Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > heretic!
:-P >> and it makes sense to plan for the future and incorporate the >> workflow changes we're thinking of here in the planning of that tool. > > Sure - it's not quite obvious where we'd jump in here yet, but I > assume that this is a tool that PMC's will be able to use to add a > committer? Potentially its going to be a tool that various parties use for various things that don't have automated workflows yet but could really use them, and have the result of that tracked via svn/e-mail/jira. I.e. generic. That includes account management but also mailing list management and other stuff. There's going to be "human steps" in that process (eg its still going to be root entering a command, we'll just spit it out for him). This will all be happening inside https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/infrastructure/apworkflow/ (sorry, not public atm, if you're an apache committer and follow infra@ you can request read karma) For now, primarily because it means some smart people will be watching my every move and hitting me on the head when I introduce security problems :-) > I would assume a general workflow of something like : > > 1) PMC Starts a workflow for a new committer > 2) execution blocks until ICLA registered by scy or officer > 3) Account creation finishes Right, there's actually a fairly detailed workflow spec for account creation already (email sent to committers@ something like 1 1/2 years ago) complete with ascii art. > Maybe add the ability for a PMC specific step or steps in there > before finish? We'd need something as simple as a question to be > answered "Does person have ACQ on file?" Exactly. That's the kind of stuff we're going to be looking at. I want to figure out *exactly* what steps for things like "Bulk Contributions" or "Authorized Contributors" are necessary from various parties (eg the Secretary has to ACK faxes for some stuff, maybe the PMC signs off on specific steps). I think the workflow is rather different. For example, a "committer" is something you become on behalf of a PMC, whereas you can make yourself an Authorized Contributor by virtue of sending in a fax and a Bulk Contributor by virtue of adding an attachment to jira. However we still need tracking and oversight (hey, someone sent in a new ACQ, it conflicts with earlier ones). > This sounds really cool... I'm aiming for really functional, but it might end up being cool in the process ;) - LSD
