Re: Possible modification to issuing Working Group Last Calls from the datatracker

[Jon Geater <[e-mail]>]

Sorry for being slow, but how can it be a surprise to Chairs that one of their documents is moving to WGLC? Or an email about it (should it be true) be controversial?

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Jon Geater

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From: Robert Sparks <[e-mail]>
Sent: Friday, September 26, 2025 5:12 pm
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Subject: Possible modification to issuing Working Group Last Calls from the datatracker

The recent change to the datatracker to send email as a side effect of
putting a document in working group last call (or call for adoption
issued) surprised several chairs, and requests have been made to make it
obvious that mail is about to be sent, and allow that mail to be edited
before sending. See https://github.com/ietf-tools/datatracker/issues/9439

I have a proposal for a change to the workflow to allow this. It's
currently running at:

https://dt-issuewglc.dev.ietf.org

That's a development instance - remember that your passwords there are
all literally "password", and that anything you do there won't
_actually_ send any email or make any change at all to the production
datatracker database.

Please experiment with the workflow for issuing wglc for documents in
your WGs - start with the edit button next to stream state - the rest is
hopefully self explanatory.

If this approach resonates well, I'll do the same thing to issuing call
for adoption.

(The proposed code changes are at
https://github.com/ietf-tools/datatracker/pull/9616)

RjS