Re: [Tools-discuss] Reference to NIST document

[Carsten Bormann <[e-mail]>]

On 2021-06-19, at 21:47, Michael Richardson <[e-mail]> wrote:
> 
> Signed PGP part
> 
> Yaron Sheffer <[e-mail]> wrote:
>> When I look up the list of bibxml databases in
>> https://xml2rfc.tools.ietf.org/, there’s a “Miscellaneous” section with
>> two links. One is broken, and one (bibxml2) seems to be outdated. In
>> any case it barely contains any NIST documents.
> 
> My understanding is that everything there is dusty, and will get renovated.

This year, we all hope…

> Since we mostly just *add* to these things, with rare updates/fixes, I wonder
> if this isn't something that git{hub} wouldn't be good at?  

It turns out that git is actually good at updates/fixes, too :-)

> I.e. if you find
> yourself needing something else, you should add it to a copy you keep
> locally,  and send a pull request.

Exactly.

The idea is so great Mark Nottingham has started something…
https://www.specref.org

> This solves much of the stability and airplane problem if one has it locally.
> (I've often rsync'ed it)

A git pull is so much easier than getting an rsync right!
(And git also doesn’t resend data that hasn’t changed — some rfc editor info gets new file dates for each RFC every day even without content changes, which can be very time consuming even with rsync.)

Grüße, Carsten