Subject: [TOOLS-DEVELOPMENT] Tools Call Notes: 15 Jan 2010

From: Steve Conte <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 09:50:49 -0800

Feel free to bash notes and apologies for any inaccurate statements:

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Tools Call 15 Jan 2010

Attendees:
Ray Pelletier
Bob Hinden
Magnus Westerlund
Russ Housley
Steve Conte
Glen Barney
Henrik Levkowetz
Pasi Eronen
Alexa Morris
Robert (sorry, didn't catch last name)

1. Bash the Agenda

No changes

2.  Database Redesign

Henrik:
noted that authors submitted drafts with current submission tools
-- more things wrong with it than initially thought
-- people who have 5+ instances of their person data in DB
-- merging data manual work and difficult task 

HL has run latest author extraction tool on 60K drafts
-- extracted authors (5 hours process time)
-- merged author info with the rest of the draft data

Hoping now that this is done, that there will be no more unknown roadblocks 

Is this last step in DB conversion?
No.  Still groups, draft comment history

Is schema for DB stable?
Yes.  Very stable. Based on Djanjo 1.0, there will only be 2 inheritance changes

New DB and tables should be ready in next 2-3 weeks.

RH understanding that the IESG PERL code convert into Django (part of IDIQ)

HL: ideal scenario: can change current model to use the new DB and tables but writing
new code will be much nicer if using new model.

3.  IDIQ RFP

Ray: 
Round 1 , rcv'd 18ish responses
higher than expected (good news)
IAOC narrowed down to a smaller group
shortlisted for round 2
R2 proposals are due 1 Feb
25 Feb IAOC has call hoping to select and authorize for final selectees
24 Mar Award contracts to selectees

next project (april) WG Author Specs

4.  WG & Author Front End Specs RFP

Idea is to provide assistance to WG chairs and authors with document tracking where they
can use the datatracker track where they are in WG process (last calls, revs, etc).
Proto team (Henrik and Allison) wrote first draft but then was shelved.  Intent is to 
revive spec and ensure that it's still inline. Between now and Mar IETF a spec will be 
built and then use IDIQ contract to get programmers to work on it.

RFP is for spec development.

Ray: 
- Proposals due 18 Feb
- IAOC could take action on 28 Feb for awarding a contract
- Development concludes in april

5.  Secretariat Tools for Redesigned DB: Task Orders

Ray:
recevied proposals from AMS on overall work for tools.  
work provided to secretariat is done under secretariat contract
relating to existing PERL/etc tools into Django
expecting a task order in order to present to IAOC
series of tasks expected (approx 13, could be coupled)

6.  Mission Critical Tools Xfer to Secretariat

idnit - Henrik and Glen working on this
 - Next week?

7.  RFC Production Center and RFC Publisher to AMS Transition Update

transition has been completed
no significant problems
volume complexity was smaller than anticipated though full rsync would have been nice
spam has been significantly reduced
post-transition items: ssl cert, dnssec, server cloning and replication (Fremont and
Orlando)
All happy with new AMS environment 

8.  Conte Update

No Code Left Behind Project - Steve to speak to Glen

9.  Anaheim Code Sprint

Focus of sprint: too early to determine at this point 
RjS -- Suggesting that we leave the sprint "open" for more personal progress on 
sprint topics
HL to set up wiki
SC to handle logisitics with Marcia

10.  Other Business

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New Submission Tool Beta Test: February
- Any unanticipated updates?  No but related to other work (author extraction, etc)

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New Document Page UI for IESG could be used for everyone's UI.  HL spoke about this
at IESG and everyone seemed OK with it.  Some tools scrape html from pages that will
break if html changes (which it will).  Should send a pre-warning to ietf-announce and
if changes are not small then expect emails with comments

GB - Isn't long term goal to eliminate screen scraping?  Would this be a good time to
address that piece.
RH - Yes, but would rather do it against new database.

HL proposes to add a pop-up to notify users that there is a new-improved interface and
suggest to go there.

-- Discussion about screen scraping

Suggested that note to community with intention and ask that those who screen scrape
respond with their thoughts

New URL should be advertised next week

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Steve Conte
[email-masked]