Subject: [TOOLS-DEVELOPMENT] Tools Call: 15 Sept 2010

From: Steve Conte <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 08:58:16 -0700

IETF Tools Call - 15 September 2010

Attendees:
Ray Pelletier
Steve Conte
Robert Sparks
Alexa Morris
Russ Housley
Glen Barney
Bob Hinden

Agenda:

0.  Bash the Agenda

1.  Beijing Code Sprint

RH to resend to 79ALL list as the list didn't exist at the time of the first
announce.
RjS can start working on work agenda
 - RH: expecting upgrade liasion statement tool and idsubmissions tool and want to 
       make sure that small bugs are addressed or enhancements identified
 - Liaision is in beta, and idsub should be beta soon
RH: A questionnaire in codesprint list to find out what went right and what went wrong
    so as to better future sprints
RjS to start shape up work agenda    
SC: Room is Ruby, will touch base with Marcia in the future regarding the network
- RP: first draft of network acceptance has just been released so NOC is starting to 
      work on it 

2.  Liaison Tool Acceptance Testing

3.  ID Submission Tool Development Update

Dev list exists but not testing list

4.  Mission Critical Tools Move

GB: No activity since last call
rfcdiff and idnits is moved
nomcom is next, Henrik to Move
RH: Tool is moved to ietf servers, but reconfig needed to happen to increase support
- Nomcom is active right now, so not a good time to implement and new tool to be 
  introduced after Nomcom 
RP: Will AMS maintain this tool?
RH: Eventually, yes 

RP: xml2rfc?
RH: call for volunteers to maintain, then tool was declared critical so determining steps
    to move tool forward into the critical tools area.  Suggestions to how to handle the 
    transisition?
GB: start with explaining the situation?  Not saying that a volunteer can't work on it 
    once it's in AMS
RH: needs a complete rewrite (written in tcl)
GB: idnits and rfcdiff use python interpreter for upload features
RH: xml2rfc has multiple URLs in the code that point back to where it resides

Suggestion is that existing tool stay live while a rewrite takes place with the input
and guidance of the maintainers.  Once rewrite is in place @ AMS, then a redirect will
point to new tool

5.  NomCom Tools Support

HL is maintaining tool while nomcom is underway and handoff won't take place until the
end of current Nomcom

6.  IT Tools Development Overview

RP:
(document shown)
19 projects in work
6 projects completed, 3 by AMS

Spending less than expected
budget is 575K , currently in the 3-400K range
conversation on friday with budget committee

7.  Asia Server Update

Henrik was going to work on bringing it up.  No new status update

8.  Other

-----
Steve Conte
[email-masked]