RFC Editor Automation of Stats and Reports Project SOW for Community Input

IETF Administrative Director <iad@ietf.org> Thu, 04 September 2014 01:28 UTC

MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
From: IETF Administrative Director <iad@ietf.org>
To: IETF Announcement List <ietf-announce@ietf.org>
Subject: RFC Editor Automation of Stats and Reports Project SOW for Community Input
Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
Precedence: bulk
Message-ID: <20140904012830.12211.50485.idtracker@ietfa.amsl.com>
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2014 18:28:30 -0700
Archived-At: http://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/ietf-announce/uRpKSC6p2rLCWbmdAK3bDkrvmtc
Cc: wgchairs@ietf.org, ietf@ietf.org, iaoc@ietf.org, rfc-interest@rfc-editor.org, iab@iab.org, iesg@ietf.org
Reply-To: ietf@ietf.org

The IAOC intends to seek bids for a project to automate the generation of RFC Editor statistics
and reports and desires community input on a draft Statement of Work. The SOW is located
here: <http://iaoc.ietf.org/rfps.html>.

The community comment period ends 21 September 2014. The IAOC will consider all
comments received during this period.

Overview

Over time, the RFC Editor’s list of statistics and report products have grown, and maintaining
them requires significant manual effort. This project will automate the generation of these
statistics and reports. This includes the monthly production of reports at
https://www.rfc-editor.org/reports/, and episodic creations of presentations for meetings
with the community. This project will additionally automate the production of two new report artifacts.

Deliverables/Tasks

The developer will work with the RFC production center staff to:

1. Identify any changes to the database needed to facilitate report production without the
current manual transcription, and implement those changes.
2. Identify changes in the look of the needed reports, particularly those needed to indicate
the current month information is ‘to-date’.
3. Design the format for two new reports artifacts.
4. Design and implement a mechanism to produce the needed reports on-demand.
5. Provide a mechanism to export the data used for the reports for use with programs like
Excel to facilitate ad-hoc reporting.
6. Integrate the report generation mechanism with http://www.rfc-editor.org/reports.
7. Provide a set of tests appropriate for regression testing for all software created by this
project demonstrating correct operation.
8. Provide documentation and training for the RFC Production Center staff.

All information submitted in response to this announcement is voluntary and may be used in
the development of the SOW.

Thanks for your continuing advice and support.

Ray Pelletier
IETF Administrative Director

RFC Editor Automation of Stats and Reports Projec… IETF Administrative Director