Subject: [TOOLS-DEVELOPMENT] Notes: 13 Jan 15 Tools Call

From: Ray Pelletier <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 14:02:39 -0500

Rough notes

Tools Call 13 Jan 15

Attendees

Henrik
Matt
Robert
Scott
Russ
Ray
Pete
Heather
Ryan
Glen
Tony
Alice
Alexa
Bob

1. Datatracker Projects
  - Expected Datatracker Releases -- Robert and Henrik
    -- http://trac.tools.ietf.org/tools/ietfdb/wiki/MergePlan

  Robert - had a couple of merges included IPR tool updates; hiccups fixed with patches; bug fix release coming this week; Django 1.7 migration gnarly; changes to database schema

  Henrik - 2014 - record year for datatracker releases - 32, v in 2009, when smaller releases; most before were 20; 19 dot 0 releases; 13 not dot 0 releases

  - IPR Tool improvements -- Robert
	IPR tool is deployed

  - Liaison Tool improvements -- Robert
	Starting back in end of this month/beginning Feb; Ryan focusing on mail archive issues
	Ryan working on changing files in archive to use … “Surprising” - Russ

  - Agenda Tool enhancements -- Robert

  - Performance improvements -- Henrik
	Nothing there yet; been otherwise occupied; be awhile before getting to it; March possibly; 
	
  - Review Tracking -- Robert
	Thinking about what goes into Requirements Document

  - Facelift -- Robert
	Still planning mid-February release; Ole is merging facelift branch, delayed, 
	Talking to Stephanie on some improvements, not ready for Dallas

2. Community & Other Projects
  - Present a directory view of active, archived, and unknown I-Ds	-- AMS
	Glen - set up a test server?  Investigated and cannot do at this time - problem is available disk space; could use IETF B Backup server?  
	Robert - need to think that through.  Please provide a short note how to do this.
	Glen - stop synch backup service and restart after testing 
	Robert - will get back to you after talking to Henrik.
	Glen - looking at upgrade to servers; and can then provide some infrastructure available, but likely months away.
	Russ - before Dallas my goal
	Robert - lower than Facelift?
	Russ - going on for months and need a clean way to organize these things; like to get down before leaving IAOC in March.
	Robert - ok with pushing facelift to after Dallas?  Only change would be FTP access to some things. 
	Russ - Alexa action item - review procedures together

  - IETF Website Makeover -- Joe and Greg
	Torcbox provided a marked up contract; they on holiday; expect by end of next week for contract

3. RFC Services Projects
  - xml2rfc bug fixes -- Alice and Henrik
	Henrik - no progress 
	Alice - switching to new style guide has changed several things
	Henrik - how prioritize xml2rfc fixes to Facelift
	Heather - not a huge hit, but would like to get fixed in next month or two
	Henrik - end of February at the earliest

  - DOI RFP -- Ray
	Standcore got the award, need to execute a contract.
	Ray to prepare a contract
	Heather - meeting with John to discuss project plan; acting as PM

  - RFC Editor Website Makeover RFP -- Ray
	AMS got the Award, need to execute a Work Order
	Work order by beginning of next week.

  - RFC Format-related SOWs -- Robert
	Same state as last call; awaiting design team output
	
  - RSE's Design Team -- Heather
	Framework is updated; awaiting examples draft from Paul; should be out shortly
	Items needed for SOWs

4. Transition of Mission Critical Tools
  - Moving mail aliases to ietf.org and link them to datatracker database
	Has happened
	Henrik - need to redirect to ietf; will work to complete this week with Robert’s help

  - Moving issue trackers and wikis for IETF WGs on ietf.org
	Henrik - after Dallas; lots of work needed there than other wikis; setting up SVN, backups, and then move everything over - svn and WG content; setup, move SVN and then move wiki content

5. Server Infrastructure
  - VM Architecture for Servers -- AMS
	Russ - response to comments?
	Glen - haven’t seen the comments;
	Matt - can’t see comments either
	Russ - comments will be re-sent
	Robert - memory?
	Glenn - have ordered memory, awaiting its arrival

  - iCal servers -- AMS
	Matt - run into a bug, not sure of source.  Researching.  Not started WG calendars, that will require some code generation; will fix problem then do WG Calendars

  - IMAP access to the email archives -- Robert
	Underway; is coding; have done a work-around 

6. IDIQ Contractors
  - Status of RFP for more IDIQ contractors -- Ray
	7 Jan RFP; Proposals due 13 Feb.

7. Parking Lot
  - Test Coverage -- Henrik
  - Mentor Support Tool -- AMS
  - Automatic stats and reporting RFP -- Heather
 
8. AOB
	Robert add to Parking Lot  - Old Documents and Authors Reflected in Datatracker
	Matt - Pete raised issues regarding Spam Tag and Mailing Archive; will check with IESG for direction