Encourage "Replaces" when submitting draft

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Encourage "Replaces" when submitting draft #7615

Open becarpenter opened 3 months ago

becarpenter commented 3 months ago

Description

When a user uploads a draft-ietf-$WGNAME--00, it would be very useful if there was an active prompt to fill in the "Replaces" field. In fact the tracker could even autofill the (presumed) name of the replaced draft, if it exists. Reason: it's unfortunate or misleading if the replaced draft is not* tagged as "Replaced by".

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rjsparks commented 2 months ago

attempting to autofill is fraught with peril (competing or unrelated drafts may have heuristically similar names)

Maybe listing some possible matches in a selection control might help.

Highlighting the replaces field in this case should be straightforward

becarpenter commented 2 months ago

listing some possible matches in a selection control might help

Yes, that would be a fine idea.