On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 09:08:31PM +0000, Viktor Dukhovni wrote: > On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 08:49:41AM +1200, Brian E Carpenter wrote: > > "There should be one place to look at all comments during last > > call for the draft editors, shepherds, and others." > > > > This is the most important point you make. It doesn't actually need > > to be fancy; it could be an enhancement of Tero Kivinen's review tool, > > or an extension of the data tracker, with relevant emails captured of > > course. It would greatly enhance the last call process. > > A github for IETF drafts would substantially move us in that > direction. In addition to tracking document revisions, github > supports in-line comments, pull requests, ... +1. Or any other git-based commercial repository service. (Even a Fossil-based one, but please, no SVN.) This is actually something where the IAOC could negotiate some sort of deal with such a provider, since it'd probably be a PR coup for them to provide such services to the IETF, and we might get the provider to build certain features for us at lower cost / in less time than we might otherwise get. Alternatively, if we're not willing to go down this route, then please develop better VCS-based I-D and RFC diff tools. > In other words, a collaborative document editing system in addition > to the mailing list. > > It would be nice if the document editing system were also able to > archive all mail messages pertaining to the review. I don't think > that archiving of email messages and displaying email threads is > currently a feature of github. My ideal: - git (or Fossil, but preferably git; not SVN) - ticket system (not required to be tied to one repo / doc) - wiki - comment/review system with mail gateway - plain text friendly - mail/comment archive, searchable, robot-friendly Currently we cobble these things together haphazardly out of existing services. I don't mind different WGs doing it differently, but we might benefit greatly from a better integrated option. Nico --