Re: [TOOLS-DEVELOPMENT] Trac - instances and issues

[Jay Daley <[e-mail]>]

> On 12/02/2020, at 10:47 AM, Henrik Levkowetz <[e-mail]> wrote:
> 
> Hi Jay,
> 
> One point, inline below:
> 
> On 2020-02-11 21:57, Jay Daley wrote:
>> Here’s my analysis of the trac situation so far.  Any corrections/additions most welcome.
>> 
>> There are multiple trac ’sites’ (for want of a better word)
>> 
>> 1.  https://trac.ietf.org
>> - This is the trac that the secretariat maintains
>> - Every new WG automatically gets a trac instance created for it here (343 current instances) but not all concluded WGs have one
>> - As far as Robert knows, the only thing used here is the wiki pages not the rest of the trac functionality
>> - This has a tools trac instance which is not used
>> 
>> 2.  https://tools.ietf.org and https://trac.tools.ietf.org
>> - This is the site that is maintained by Henrik
>> - Some (All?) WGs are listed here (117 current and 515 concluded) with each having a set of status pages and one of the headings of the status page being a pointer to the wiki for 1. above
>> - The two URLs work interchangeably (which is what confused me about two instances per WG, when in fact there is only one)
> 
> These are not trac instances at all; they are the old WG pages I built
> before the datatracker had any resources for the WGs.  These pages provided
> the impetus for starting to build WG pages in the datatracker.
> 
> Their functionality has gradually been duplicated (and in many cases now
> exceeded) in the datatracker, but there are still people who prefer the
> more compact representation provided on the tools.ietf.org <http://tools.ietf.org/> pages.

Thanks Henrik - I understand now.

Jay


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