Re: [Tools-discuss] Datatracker version borks

[Henrik Levkowetz <[e-mail]>]

Hi Brian,

On 2020-03-09 22:17, Brian Rosen wrote:
> If tools never made mistakes, manual submission wouldn’t be required.
> But tools make mistakes. Manual submission fixes that, but you have
> to ask for the right thing, so having an override when you manually
> submit: which might show up as red text to the secretariat, seems to
> make sense to me.

This was an exceptional case, and much better handled manually than by
writing code to override it.  I think the right thing happened here.


Best regards,

	Henrik


> Brian
> 
>> On Mar 9, 2020, at 5:13 PM, Carsten Bormann <[e-mail]> wrote:
>> 
>> On 2020-03-09, at 22:09, Brian Rosen <[e-mail]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Will you put the “can’t override the tool when manually submitting” on a bug list somewhere?
>> 
>> That is not the bug.  Not determining the right next number is the bug.
>> I don’t think the tool should allow selecting a random version number (even though it would have helped with TLS :-)
>> 
>> Grüße, Carsten
>> 
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