Re: [Tools-discuss] Datatracker-generated announcements for (minor) WG milestone changes

Hi Michael,

On 2013-07-26 19:08 Scharf, Michael (Michael) said the following:
> Completion of two WG milestones resulted in the following post to the
> mailing list, which is not simple to parse, because the change is
> hidden very carefully... One has to grep for "resolved"...

Yes, there's definitely a bug here; the datatracker shouldn't be reporting
as changes things that haven't changed ...

> In addition, the message got stuck in mailman and required manual
> approval (I did so because the expectation seems to be that this
> message goes to the WG list, even if I personally find the format´of
> that message not very useful).
> 
> Since this is a standard operation that will probably occur not only
> once, two suggestions for improvement:
> 
> 1. Limit the posting of changed milestones only to those milestones
> that actually were modified

Of course, will fix.

> 2. Ensure that such an automated message is not blocked by mailman

I'll email the secretariat about this.

Best regards,

	Henrik

> Michael
> 
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: tcpm-bounces@ietf.org [mailto:tcpm-bounces@ietf.org] On Behalf
>>    Of IETF Secretariat
>> Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2013 6:20 PM
>> To: tcpm@ietf.org
>> Subject: [tcpm] Milestones changed for tcpm WG
>> 
>> Changed milestone "Submit FRTO draft to IESG for publication as an
>>    Experimental RFC", set due date to March 2004 from March 2004.
>> 
>> Changed milestone "Submit TCP Roadmap document to IESG for publication
>>    as a  Best Current Practices RFC", set due date to May 2004 from
>>    May 2004.
>> 
>> Changed milestone "Submit SYN flooding document to the IESG for
>>    publication as an Informational RFC", set due date to January 2007
>>    from January 2007.
>> 
>> Changed milestone "Submit soft errors document to the IESG for
>>    publication as an Informational RFC", set due date to January 2007
>>    from January 2007.
>> 
>> Changed milestone "Submit In-Window Attack draft to IESG for
>>    publication as a Proposed Standard RFC", set due date to March 2009
>>    from March 2009.
>> 
>> Changed milestone "Submit ECN-SYN document to the IESG for publication
>>    as a Proposed Standard RFC", set due date to March 2009 from March
>>    2009.
>> 
>> Changed milestone "Submit revision of RFC 2581 to the IESG for
>>    publication as a Draft Standard", set due date to March 2009 from
>>    March 2009.
>> 
>> Changed milestone "Submit ICMP attack document to the IESG for
>>    publication as an Informational RFC", set due date to July 2009
>>    from July 2009.
>> 
>> Changed milestone "Submit TCP Early-Retransmit document to the IESG
>>    for Experimental RFC", set due date to July 2009 from July 2009.
>> 
>> Changed milestone "Submit update to RFC 1323 to the IESG for Proposed
>>    Standard RFC", set due date to July 2009 from July 2009.
>> 
>> Changed milestone "Submit MSS text revision originally from RFC 1323
>>    appendix to the IESG for Proposed Standard RFC", set due date to
>>    July
>> 2009 from July 2009.
>> 
>> Changed milestone "Submit TCP Urgent Pointer draft to IESG for
>>    publication as a Proposed Standard RFC", set due date to January
>>    2010 from January 2010.
>> 
>> Changed milestone "Submit document on the use of SACK data to trigger
>>    loss recovery to the IESG for Proposed Standard", set due date to
>>    October 2010 from October 2010.
>> 
>> Changed milestone "Submit document on mitigation of 'Long Connectivity
>>    Disruptions' to the IESG for Experimental", set due date to October
>>    2010 from October 2010.
>> 
>> Changed milestone "Submit document on moving undeployed TCP extensions
>>    to Historic status to the IESG for publication as an Informational
>>    RFC", set due date to October 2010 from October 2010.
>> 
>> Changed milestone "Submit RFC2988bis document to the IESG for
>>    publication as a Proposed Standard", set due date to March 2011
>>    from March 2011.
>> 
>> Changed milestone "Submit document on increasing the initial window to
>>    IESG as Experimental", resolved as "Done".
>> 
>> Changed milestone "Submit document on a proportional rate reduction
>>    mechanism to the IESG as Experimental", set due date to May 2012
>>    from May 2012, resolved as "Done".
>> 
>> Changed milestone "Submit document on restarting the RTO timer to the
>>    IESG for publication as an Experimental RFC", set due date to
>>    August
>> 2013 from August 2013.
>> 
>> Changed milestone " Decide the intended status of the document on TCP
>>    support for rate-limited traffic", set due date to August 2013 from
>>    August 2013.
>> 
>> Changed milestone "Submit document on TCP support for rate-limited
>>    traffic for publication (status decided as earlier milestone)", set
>>    due date to November 2013 from November 2013.
>> 
>> Changed milestone "Submit document on an analysis of more detailed ECN
>>    feedback in TCP to the IESG for publication as an Informational
>>    RFC", set due date to November 2013 from November 2013.
>> 
>> URL: http://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/tcpm/charter/
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