Re: [Tools-discuss] another case of links not updating

[Paul Wouters <[e-mail]>]

On Wed, 6 May 2020, Henrik Levkowetz wrote:

Thanks for the quick rpely Henrik,

>> It's not a "timing" thing either as the -04 was submitted on April 30.
>
> Right.  It's a matter of a cache invalidation trigger sometimes failing.

Yes, I remember talking about this before. But that trigger bug only
reflects to recent updates. All the past issues where the trigger did
not happen would need to be found and corrected as well.

So I thought the solution we thought of at that time was to go over the
entire archive and fixup all the broken ones automatically. That would
be independent of this cache bug or other future bugs ?

> The metadata handling and cache invalidation on tools.ietf.org resides in
> old bash scripts that have not gotten a lot of attention lately, to a
> large extent because my time has been dedicated to datatracker and xml2rfc
> work the last few years.  With the importance of getting the xml2rfc schema
> v3 launced and the effort of moving other tools to the datatracker, the
> maintenance of the tools.ietf.org site has fallen behind.

I do understand and I do appreciate the time you spend on xml2rfc, as
I'm a frequent user of it. But I do think this bug needs a bit more
priority, since it has been years, and I only find out about missing
references on my own drafts. It is really unclear how many references I
miss on other people's drafts when I don't know they exist because the
tracker might not show me. Personally, now when I read a "latest" draft,
I always increase the number by one to see if I'm not missing something :/

> It's work I want to do, but the hours I have are limited.  I've fixed the
> immediate issue, and will try to find time to debug the root cause.

Thanks. I'll ping you again when I have some more time myself in a few
weeks to see if we can get me setup to look at the current code and/or
dbase to see the scope of the issue and look at fixing the bug and the
old references.

Cheers,

Paul