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

Russ Housley <housley@vigilsec.com> Wed, 22 February 2012 22:52 UTC

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Subject: Re: [iola-conversion-tool] Bug when Adding a document to the tracker
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This should not be true.  A telechat agenda indicates which AD has the token, and it shows an Area.  I believe that when Jari was the token holder for -two-maturity-level, the area was still "(Gen)".

Russ


On Feb 22, 2012, at 4:16 PM, Robert Sparks wrote:

> IESG :
> 
> Cindy and I stumbled over what we first thought was a bug, but it turned out to be a surprising
> feature/side-effect of the conversion effort.
> 
> The data we've been collecting on the edit-info-form (what we have been using to add a document to the
> tracker or to change it's IESG state/telechat date, etc.) about which area a document belongs to is not being
> used by any part of the production datatracker other than that form.
> 
> <ceficbhd.png>
> 
> So, it will not appear on the form in the new system (and the data collected in the old system is 
> not being migrated I believe).
> 
> That really surprised me, but after digging through the code and discussing it with Ole, I'm convinced it's
> correct.
> 
> If we find a need to start collecting that data again in the future, it won't be hard to add.
> 
> RjS
> 
> 
> On 2/22/12 11:18 AM, Ole Laursen wrote:
>> 
>> 2012/2/21 Robert Sparks <rjsparks@nostrum.com>
>> The biggest is that the form didn't ask for the area the document should be associated with.
>> It occasionally happens that an AD from outside the area takes the shepherd role for a document, so
>> you can't infer this from which AD is assigned.
>> 
>> Right. At the moment, we don't store an area at all. Grepping for it, the only place I managed to find using the attribute apart from the edit form is the agenda document template where the proxy wrapper will infer the area from the WG (if there's a WG) or else from the shepherding AD.
>> 
>> The search page looks for the area of the WG in the old schema if you do a search for area, not the area attribute which is perhaps not surprising if it's only set for documents in the IESG process.
>> 
>> So do you think this is a problem still?
>>  
> <snip/>