Re: [iola-conversion-tool] Bug when Adding a document to the tracker

Henrik Levkowetz <henrik@levkowetz.com> Thu, 23 February 2012 21:00 UTC

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Subject: Re: [iola-conversion-tool] Bug when Adding a document to the tracker
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Hi Robert, Ole,

On 2012-02-23 21:33 Robert Sparks said the following:
> 
> 
> On 2/23/12 2:20 PM, Ole Laursen wrote:
>> 2012/2/23 Henrik Levkowetz<henrik@levkowetz.com>:
>>> Ok, so if this is used by the IESG or some ADs during the IESG processing,
>>> we should support it.  Do we have a straightforward way of associating a
>>> non-WG document with an area independently of who the sponsoring AD is?
>>>
>>> Since areas are groups, too, we should be able to have an association with
>>> the area in the same way that wg documents are associated with a WG, I think.
>>
>> Yes. It sounds like we need to keep track of the area for a few
>> individually submitted documents here that conceptually belong to an
>> area, in the same way as WG drafts belong to a WG? Is that correct?
>
> I think this is mismodeling what we need a bit. Focusing on the
> individually submitted nature of the document may not be right. To
> put stress on it:
> 
> How would you handle a document from a RAI working group that both
> Gonzalo and I needed to recuse on. Some other AD (let say Peter for
> this example) would be the sponsor. The doc should show from RAI and
> as a product of that RAI WG.

Agreed, but that's in line with what I (am trying to, at least!) propose
above.  See more below.

> It seems natural to just have an area associated with a document at
> any time it is identified as IETF stream.

What I'm proposing is that this association can be either indirectly,
through an association with a WG, which would give the area of the WG;
or directly set to an area (which is independent of the area of any 
sponsoring AD).

>> If so, I suggest we just associate the document with the area instead
>> of the phony individual group and be done with it. I can add some UI
>> for that. Does that sound agreeable?

> Treating individual submissions as belonging to a psuedo-group has
> always disturbed me, but I don't know if that first proposal is the
> right fix.

The alternative is to not associate them with a group at all, until they
have been accepted by a WG, or a sponsoring AD.  I think that for the
purpose of code uniformity it's easier to associate them with a group
'Individual Contributions' (or whatever) than to code the equivalent of

  if doc.group == None:
     print "Individual"
  else:
     print doc.group

everywhere we need to show something for such a document.


Best regards,

	Henrik