Re: [Tools-discuss] Change in datatracker behavior

[Henrik Levkowetz <[e-mail]>]

Hi Barry,

On 2013-07-24 22:28 Barry Leiba said the following:
>> I just looked a little bit at this, and it might actually be correct, as
>> the RFC is considered just another instance of the document which started
>> out as draft-..., as you'll see if you look at the history tab.
>>
>> What did you expect; what were you looking for on the draft page?
> 
> I'm not certain, but I'm *pretty sure* this didn't used to work that
> way -- that we used to be able to see the page for last version of the
> draft.
> 
> That said, the main problems are these:
> 
> - The tools version lets one look at each version of the document
> explicitly, but the datatracker doesn't.  This isn't a change, of
> course.

Ah.  Right.  

> - When the document was draft-ietf-mpls-fastreroute-mib-21, the
> history tab let us look at diffs between any pair of versions, 00 thru
> 21.  Now that it's RFC 6445, the history tab no longer allows any
> diffs at all.  I'm pretty sure this is a change.  In any case, it's
> unfortunate.

Oops!  Yes, that's a regression.  I'll find out where *that* went, and
bring it back.

> The workaround is, of course, to use the tools version.

Right, but you shouldn't need to; the diff functionality should be there.


Best regards,

	Henrik