Re: [Ietf-and-github] [Ext] Mirja Kühlewind's Discuss on draft-ietf-git-github-wg-configuration-06: (with DISCUSS and COMMENT)

[Paul Hoffman <[e-mail]>]

Catching up on the rest of Mirja's comments (not already discussed on this thread)

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>>> COMMENT:
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>>> Other questions/comments:
>>> 
>>> 1) Sec 2.3:
>>> "There should likely be an API to specify that there were personnel changes."
>>> Inline with the comment in the shepherd write-up, I find this sentence really
>>> unclear. I'm not even sure where the API should be (datatracker or GitHub) and
>>> what is should do?

We will change "API" to "ability in the Datatracker".

>>> 
>>> 2) Sec 2.5:
>>> "Creating a new repository for an individual draft"
>>> This section indicated that also individual drafts could be maintained within
>>> the official wg organization. I'm not sure if that is practical or desirable:
>>> Which individual docs should the chairs allow repos for and which not? There
>>> can be quite a lot of draft in some groups.

Some chairs have indicated it is desirable, so the WG thought it should be possible.

>>> 
>>> 3) Also sec 2.5:
>>> "   As an incremental step, this document proposes that there be a
>>> facility in the Datatracker interface to allow an administrator of an
>>> ietf-wg-<wgname> organization to request the creation of a new
>>> repository within that organization for a single document."
>>> For -00 version you usually want to have a repo before you submit it to the
>>> datatracker. So a button on the datatracker page of the draft does not seems
>>> too useful...

Document authors can tell the WG chairs that they intend to create a new WG draft. If that happens, the WG chair creates the repo with either the intended draft name or something semantically relevant, and tells the document authors before they turn in the -00. (I think this has already happened in some WGs...)

>>> 
>>> 4) Sec 2.6:
>>> "At the time of this writing this feature was under development."
>>> Wasn't there always/for a long time already a feature where you can add link to
>>> external pages?

This is currently true for chairs for their WGs, but not for authors in their document page.

--Paul Hoffman