Re: [TOOLS-DEVELOPMENT] Notes for 12Feb tools call

Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com> Fri, 08 February 2019 17:41 UTC

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Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2019 09:40:50 -0800
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Subject: Re: [TOOLS-DEVELOPMENT] Notes for 12Feb tools call
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On Fri, Feb 8, 2019 at 9:29 AM Robert Sparks <rjsparks@nostrum.com> wrote:

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> On 2/8/19 11:20 AM, Eric Rescorla wrote:
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> On Fri, Feb 8, 2019 at 8:51 AM Robert Sparks <rjsparks@nostrum.com> wrote:
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>> # IETF Website #
>>
>> Torchbox has completed their last major deliverable (upgrading the
>> website to a more modern version of wagtail). There are a small number
>> of tickets related to documentation and requests for information we
>> should have before shifting the code into our own public code
>> repository. Note that the wagtail project continues to issue new
>> releases. The project with torchbox brought us to wagtail 2.2.2. The
>> current release now is 2.4.
>>
>> However, we are blocked on deploying this latest deliverable. The way we
>> are serving python applications via Apache right now (mod_wsgi) only
>> allows the use of one version of python. Many of our applications are on
>> Python 2.7 right now. This includes the datatracker and the mailarchive.
>> Wagtail, on the other hand, dropped support for python 2.7 at Wagtail
>> 2.0. Waiting until we have all exisiting deployed applications ported to
>> python 3 to deploy the deliverable from Torchbox is exceedingly
>> suboptimal. It will delay the current plan for the tools-team to take
>> over maintenance of the website code and start adding features the
>> secretariat has asked for. We've started conversations about what other
>> options we have besides waiting for everything to be ported to python 3.
>>
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> Why does the version of datatracker impact the version of Wagtail we run?
> They seem to be on different hosts, so can't they run different versions of
> Python?
>
> They are currently served from the same machine, even if they have
> different hostnames.
>

This seems like a good opportunity to move one to a different machine, or
better yet, to some system (containers?) where hardware assignment doesn't
matter.



> # Yangcatalog #
>>
>> We've shifted the plan for short-term deployment and development to
>> occur using the existing externally hosted server.
>>
>
> Can you provide some more background for this? Why can't this be moved to
> an IETF server (or IETF-managed cloud)
>
> There were some difficulties trying to move this to an IETF server given
> the current level of access to internals (shell access to the machine)
> required by the application. Eric and the developers were experiencing
> connectivity problems that couldn't be reproduced from other locations, and
> it appears some trouble with outbound connections that Glen's team couldn't
> isolate. The goal is _definitely_ to be where we could deploy anywhere. The
> first task in the outstanding SoW includes the work needed to get the
> project to the point that shell access isn't required by the developers or
> application expert. It will also improve release packaging to make
> deploying wherever more feasible.''
>

Hmm.... So my instinct here would be to hold off on doing anything else
until that's happened. Alissa, WDYT?

-Ekr


> -Ekr
>
> The meeting application improvement SoW is essentially ready to issue.
>>
>> I have text from Ekr to work into the RPC security code review SoW. The
>> RPC has asked that we hold off issuing that RFP until some changes
>> related to the new format are better integrated into their repository so
>> that the review focuses more on the code that will actually be used.
>>
>> The Inline-Errata SoW is still under review and has several unresolved
>> comments. The lastest version is at
>> <
>> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1T-6eBrNPC7aIxOTChdIZE7fecbxUJ7kq-F6RhyCNUGI/edit>.
>>
>> One of the major observations in the comments is that this project is
>> focusing on the existing (old-format) publication format, and is not
>> targetting or taking advantage of the new format in any way. That's
>> intentional. We need to have some run-time experience with the new
>> format before we can sensibly ask a contractor to work on inlining
>> errata into it. We plan to learn from this project, and apply what we
>> learn into the new format with a future project.
>>
>> The next SoW to be developed is for IANA expert review tracking.
>>
>>
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