Re: [Tools-discuss] xml2rfc archives vs datatracker

[Henrik Levkowetz <[e-mail]>]

Hi Michael,

On 2019-11-18 20:57, Michael Richardson wrote:
> 
> Hi, my understanding is that xml2rfc.ietf.org is just a redirect to
> tools.ietf.org, and is not yet supported.
> 
> Meanwhile, the datatracker.ietf.org is supported, and now are doing XML as
> primary submission format, and that involves the datatracker reaching out to
> xml2rfc.tools.ietf.org to run xml2rfc.
> So, if xml2rfc.tools.ietf.org is down, or is missing a generated
> reference. file,  then I can't submit documents via the datatracker.
> 
> (Or I have to submit .txt files, perhaps, which I don't know if I do
> programmatically)
> 
> What is the plan to rationalize this support situation?

Marshall Rose's old TCL scripts have been misbehaving lately, and I don't
know how to fix them.

In datatracker release 6.110.0 of Nov 5th I added generation of draft
bibxml3 entries directly from the datatracker database, and I aim to
deploy that for trial soon, and eventually replace the scripts running
on tools.ietf.org with the new code.

As soon as I've got the bibxml3 file generation deployed, I'll tap you
for testing of that.

Meanwhile, the on-the-fly references also introduced on Nov. 5 are available:

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/bibxml3/draft-selander-lake-edhoc.xml


Regards,

	Henrik