Re: [Tools-discuss] Charter diff feature

[Benoit Claise <[e-mail]>]

On 12/04/2013 01:37, Barry Leiba wrote:
>>> My guess is that the tools server and the Datatracker database has a
>>> different idea of the timestamp for that charter for some reason. We
>>> did an import when the charter tool went up - the details escape me,
>>> but I think the Datatracker timestamp is probably the correct one in
>>> this case.
>>>
>>> In any case, charters actually have official sequential revision
>>> numbers now rather than the timestamps.
>> Thanks, that's the trick: focus on the charter revision, and not the dates.
> Further follow-up:
> The confusing dates come from the fact that changes that the
> Secretariat makes that do not affect the charter text (changes to
> milestones or chairs, for example) cause a "new" charter to appear on
> the tools WG charter page, though they don't cause a new charter
> version to appear in the datatracker.
As an improvement, we could delete the (confusing) dates, and focus only 
on the versions.

Regards, Benoit
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> Barry
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