Re: [Tools-discuss] Important dates in upcoming.ics

[Michael Richardson <[e-mail]>]

Robert Sparks <[e-mail]> wrote:
    > All, and particularly Michael, who IIRC made the original request:

    > The upcoming meetings ics calendar currently includes meeting important
    > dates (but the page does not show them). Lars points out that this is
    > both inconsistent, and redundant with the separate important dates ics
    > calendar we have.

I'm okay with important dates being elsewhere.
What feed is that page?  https://www.ietf.org/how/meetings/ does not mention
it.  I get to https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/important-dates/
only by going into a specific meeting.

I think that ultimately my original complaint was that the upcoming included
the *meeting* things, which was redundant with having the meeting calendar loaded.
I think that this has been fixed now.

The primary utility I have with upcoming.ics is that it tells me (in various
roles), when there are other (virtual) interim meetings.

I would like it if the upcoming.ics included the IESG Telechats and other
related things (LLC board, RTG area meetings, etc.).  Again, the goal is
either de-conflicting, or at least, consciously knowing about double bookings.

    > Would it be reasonable to remove the important dates from the
    > upcoming.ics calendar?

YES.

    > (Also note that the way these important dates are currently being
    > represented in both of the above .ics files is not right - it fails to
    > display in calendar.app, and causes other calendaring systems to assert
    > that the whole day is "Busy" - see
    > https://trac.tools.ietf.org/tools/ietfdb/ticket/3161).

Oh.  That's really bad.
I guess that's because they are not associated with a specific time.
Maybe for some things, like Draft Deadline, a 5 minute event at 23:55:00
would work.  That would also establish the deadline into the right time zone.

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