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A template for IETF internet draft git repositories
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Support for Replaces tag #409

Closed DavidSchinazi closed 9 months ago

DavidSchinazi commented 9 months ago

The automated pipeline that converts releases/tags into automatic draft uploads is amazing. The only place where it fails is when a document gets adopted. In that scenario I submit draft-ietf-foo-bar-00.xml manually to set the Replaces tag.

Now that https://github.com/ietf-tools/datatracker/pull/4037 has landed and https://github.com/ietf-tools/datatracker/issues/3286 has been resolved, the datatracker API allows setting this tag in JSON. So we could automate that here. I'm imagining a simple regex that would detect a newly adopted draft draft-ietf-foo-bar-00 and would look for a draft-author-foo-bar-nn tag to replace it.

I'm happy to write a PR for this feature, just wanted to make sure this wasn't in progress before starting. Also happy to take tips/pointers/thoughts on it.

martinthomson commented 9 months ago

Have you tried using the automated process for the draft-ietf-foo-bar-00 submission? I believe that it should work. Maybe I need to update documentation...

DavidSchinazi commented 9 months ago

Oh I never tried. Is it set up to twiddle the Replaces tag?

martinthomson commented 9 months ago

Documentation says:

If you have renamed a draft, this will also set the "replaces" field for you automatically, based on the git history of the file.

This is a little bit magic (git doesn't track file renames, it can only sort of guess...)

DavidSchinazi commented 9 months ago

Oh sweet that's awesome, thanks for doing that. I'll give it a try next time something gets adopted.