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

"Benoit@everything-ops.net" <benoit@everything-ops.net> Sun, 28 September 2025 08:54 UTC

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Subject: Re: Possible modification to issuing Working Group Last Calls from the datatracker
To: Robert Sparks <rjsparks@nostrum.com>, "wgchairs@ietf.org" <wgchairs@ietf.org>, The IESG <iesg@ietf.org>
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Robert,

This is a real improvement.
Can you please do the same for the "Call for Adoption" state change, 
which also generates an email. Sometime, we need to tweak the IPR section.

Thanks and regards, Benoit
> 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
>
>