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

[Rifaat Shekh-Yusef <[e-mail]>]

Hi Robert,

Thanks for this useful feature.

One comment about issuing another WGLC:
To be able to do that with this change, I needed to put the document back
into WG Document state, submit it, which will send another email to the
list, and only then I will get that option to send another WGLC.
It would be great if that could be done directly without getting the
document back to the WG Document state.

Otherwise, it looks great to me!

Regards,
 Rifaat





On Fri, Sep 26, 2025 at 12:11 PM Robert Sparks <[e-mail]> wrote:

> 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
>
>
>