Thanks. BTW, it turns out that the IETF *has* a comparable rsync site. One syncs rsync -avz rsync.tools.ietf.org::tools.id ./id rather than rsync -avz [—delete] ietf.org::internet-drafts I had been using the latter. http://trac.tools.ietf.org/group/tools/trac/wiki/DataSources On Jul 16, 2014, at 11:05 AM, Warren Kumari <warren@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 3:13 PM, Elwyn Davies <elwynd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hi. >> >> I also quite liked the watersprings interface and was saddened by its >> demise. However, Henrik's draft searching scheme does most of what I >> need and the interface at tools.ietf.org/html/draft... gives you the >> access to all the versions and output renderings. >> >> The only thing lacking is the ability to have a nicely formatted and >> resonably compact list of all the drafts ever made starting with a given >> letter. Useful for idle browsing and finding drafts you can't quite >> remember the title or authors of. > > Well, I finally had a chance to poke at this -- I moved everything > over to a new VM and fixed it there (instead of poking at the existing > one). I never really used the original one, so I'm not sure if I fixed > / reimplemented all the features. > > I also updated some things - the original one was doing some fancy FTP > parsing, which I couldn't really see the point of, so I replaced it > with rsync. Oh, this also didn't update since ~2011, will see if I can > backfill sometime... > > Anyway, if folk would like to see the new version, it is at > http://watersprings.snozzages.com -- once if finished futzing with it > I'll change the DNS. > > >> >> Warren: If you have time and enthusiasm I'd be inclined to see if a >> couple of extra screens could be added to what we have already rather >> than reimplementating a separate Watersprings clone since the back end >> is already in place. > > This was easier, although it did mean relearning Perl -- will look at > reimplementing on the IETF site sometime. > > > W >> >> I don't think that putting back what Watersprings had exactly would give >> you any more ancient history. I seem to remember that it didn't have >> drafts earlier than about 1995, but it's a long time since I checked >> that ;-). I did when I was looking for Nimrod routing history and other >> stuff for the routing history RFC. >> >> The current tool has a smattering of moderately ancient history already: >> >> Some of the suggestions for IPng are there: >> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-crocker-ip-encaps-01 >> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-deering-sip-00 >> (The REAL SIP!) >> >> but I suspect the list is incomplete - however unless the file archives >> are lurking in some server, I don't know how we would know (did >> ietf-announce exist in those days and would it help?) >> >> Regards, >> Elwyn >> >> >> >> On Wed, 2014-07-02 at 19:15 +0100, Adrian Farrel wrote: >>> Interesting, Warren. >>> >>> I used to use waterspring and still have an annoying bookmark that autocompletes when I start to type www.wat... >>> >>> At the time that waterspring was set up we didn't archive old versions of I-Ds and once an I-D had expired it disappeared (related issues, but separately annoying). That is no longer the case, so the (UI aside) the main residual value would be retrieving the archive of old I-Ds and I am not so sure how useful that is, but archivists and IPR lawyers might comment). >>> >>> Adrian >>> >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> From: ietf [mailto:ietf-bounces@xxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Warren Kumari >>>> Sent: 02 July 2014 19:09 >>>> To: ietf@xxxxxxxx Disgust >>>> Subject: Reviving watersprings.org. >>>> >>>> Hi there all, >>>> >>>> A number of years ago there was a site called watersprings.org which >>>> archived Internet Drafts and RFCs and provided some interesting >>>> linking between them. >>>> I never used it, but apparently a number of folk really liked the >>>> interface / etc. >>>> >>>> The site was hosted in Japan and the creator shut it down to conserve >>>> power after the 2011 tsunami. I provided him a VM (on a machine that >>>> nLayer / Richard Steenbergen hosts for me), and we started migrating >>>> over to it. Unfortunately, he no longer has the time / resources to >>>> run the site, and we never finished the migration / the scripts >>>> haven't run since then. >>>> >>>> Anyway, I've offered to take over maintaining the VM, try figure out >>>> how it all works, upgrade it, finish the migration, etc. >>>> Before spending the time on this though, I figured I should check if >>>> folk still want it / think that it will be a useful resource. The time >>>> investment will be fairly significnat, but happy to do it if folk will >>>> use it... >>> >> >
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