datatracker/ietf/templates/release/about.html
Henrik Levkowetz 4ff9868f1c Added pages About and ToDo under /release/.
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{% extends "ietf.html" %}
{% block title %}About the Datatracker{% endblock %}
{% block content %}
<div class="col-sm-12">
<h1>About the IETF Datatracker</h1>
<big>
<p>
The IETF Datatracker is the primary day-to-day front-end to the IETF database for people
who work on IETF standards. It contains data about the documents, working groups,
meetings, agendas, minutes, presentations, etc. of the IETF.
</p>
<p>
The primary public face of IETF is at <a href="https://www.ietf.org/">www.ietf.org</a>.
</p>
</big>
<h2>Version 6.0.0: Facelift using Bootstrap</h2>
<p>
During more than a year, from July 2013 to late 2014, <i>Lars Eggert</i> worked intensively
on a major facelift to the datatracker, porting the GUI to Bootstrap. The work
took
<a href="http://trac.tools.ietf.org/tools/ietfdb/log/personal/lars?rev=8652&stop_rev=5871&limit=500">
287 separate commits
</a>, and comprised changes to 1016 different files.
</p>
<p>
This work has turned the IETF Datatracker website into a responsive website which
support use on a much larger variety of devices, from small mobile devices to desktops.
</p>
<p>
The work continues to build on the <a href="https://www.djangoproject.org/">Django</a>
framework which the datatracker has been using since <a href="/release/2.00/">version
2.00</a>, and relies heavily on the capabilities of <a href="http://getbootstrap.com">
Bootstrap</a>. It also uses icons from <a href="">FontAwesome</a>, and functions from
<a href="https://django-bootstrap3.readthedocs.org/">django-bootstrap3</a>.
</p>
<p>
Additional
<a href="http://trac.tools.ietf.org/tools/ietfdb/log/branch/iola?rev=9116&stop_rev=8520&limit=200">
page conversion work
</a> has been done by <i>Ole Laursen</i>, with final
tweaks by <i>Henrk Levkowetz</i>, giving it a distinct
<a href="http://www.colourlovers.com/palette/3702908/Key_West_Sunset">colour palette</a>
(with the addition of complementing red and green colours for success and error indications),
and a selection of fonts
(<a href="http://www.identifont.com/show?2G32">PT Serif</a>,
<a href="http://www.identifont.com/show?2G2G">PT Sans Caption</a>, and PT Mono) from
<a href="http://www.paratype.com/public/">ParaType</a>, provided by
<a href="https://www.google.com/fonts">Google Fonts</a>.
</p>
<h2>Version 5.0.0: Shim Removal</h2>
<div class="alert-info">
To be written.
</div>
<h2>Version 4.0.0: New Database Schema</h2>
<div class="alert-info">
To be written.
</div>
<h2>Version 3.0.0: Django Port of the IESG Datatracker Pages</h2>
<div class="alert-info">
To be written.
</div>
<h2>Version 2.0.0: Django Port of the Public Datatracker Pages</h2>
<div class="alert-info">
To be written.
</div>
<h2>Version 1.0.0: Initial Perl/MySQL database and web-pages</h2>
<p>
The first version of the idtracker was commissioned by the IESG under <i>Harald
Alvestrand</i> in 2001, and the IESG started using it at the beginning of 2002. It was
written by <i>Michael Lee</i> in Perl, with direct SQL statements. It provided a
major improvement in visibility of the progress of drafts by the IESG.
The first <a href="https://www.ietf.org/proceedings/55/slides/plenary-6/plenary-6.ppt">
public presentation</a> of it and its capabilities was made 2002-11-20
in Atlanta by Thomas Narten.
</p>
</div>
{% endblock %}