Re: [Tools-discuss] Change in datatracker behavior

Robert Sparks <rjsparks@nostrum.com> Wed, 24 July 2013 20:41 UTC

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Hrmm - for the draft adrian pointed to, you can still get to the ballots.

RjS

On 7/24/13 3:38 PM, Robert Sparks wrote:
> On 7/24/13 3:28 PM, Barry Leiba wrote:
>>> I just looked a little bit at this, and it might actually be 
>>> correct, as
>>> the RFC is considered just another instance of the document which 
>>> started
>>> out as draft-..., as you'll see if you look at the history tab.
>>>
>>> What did you expect; what were you looking for on the draft page?
>> I'm not certain, but I'm *pretty sure* this didn't used to work that
>> way -- that we used to be able to see the page for last version of the
>> draft.
> I'm certain.
>
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc3261/ gave a view of the rfc
>
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-sip-rfc2543bis/ gave a 
> view of the last version of the draft,
> which gave you access to the ballots.
>>
>> That said, the main problems are these:
>>
>> - The tools version lets one look at each version of the document
>> explicitly, but the datatracker doesn't.  This isn't a change, of
>> course.
>>
>> - When the document was draft-ietf-mpls-fastreroute-mib-21, the
>> history tab let us look at diffs between any pair of versions, 00 thru
>> 21.  Now that it's RFC 6445, the history tab no longer allows any
>> diffs at all.  I'm pretty sure this is a change.  In any case, it's
>> unfortunate.
>>
>> The workaround is, of course, to use the tools version.
>>
>> Barry
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