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164 lines
6.9 KiB
HTML
{# bs5ok #}
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{# Copyright The IETF Trust 2015, All Rights Reserved #}
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{% extends "base.html" %}
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{% load origin %}
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{% block title %}About the Datatracker{% endblock %}
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{% block content %}
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{% origin %}
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<h1>About the IETF Datatracker</h1>
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<p>
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The IETF Datatracker is the primary day-to-day front-end to the IETF database for people
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who work on IETF standards. It contains data about the documents, working groups,
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meetings, agendas, minutes, presentations, and more, of the IETF.
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The primary public face of the IETF is at
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<a href="https://www.ietf.org/">www.ietf.org</a>.
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</p>
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<p>
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All the Datatracker code is publicly available from the
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<a href="https://svn.ietf.org/svn/tools/ietfdb">IETF tools SVN repository</a>.
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Bug tickets and wiki notes are available from the
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<a href="https://trac.ietf.org/trac/ietfdb">Issue Tracker</a>,
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and
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there are also
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<a href="/release">release notes</a>
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available since version 2.00.
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</p>
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<p>
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Below you'll find a brief history of the datatracker development, in terms of the big
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moments. For the nitty-gritty week-to-week code changes, please check the release
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notes or the commit log.
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</p>
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<h2>Version 6.x Work</h2>
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<p>
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Between the release of 6.0.0 in April 2015 and the
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<a href="/release/">latest release</a>
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there has been numerous releases (75, as of 11 Feb 2017) which has extended the
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functionality of the datatracker substantially. The
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<a href="/release/#release-list">release list</a>
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gives more information.
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</p>
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<h2>Version 6.0.0: Facelift using Bootstrap</h2>
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<p>
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During more than a year, from July 2013 to late 2014, <i>Lars Eggert</i> worked intensively
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on a major facelift to the datatracker, porting the GUI to Bootstrap. The work
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took
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<a href="https://trac.ietf.org/trac/ietfdb/log/personal/lars?rev=8652&stop_rev=5871&limit=500">
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287 separate commits
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</a>,
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and comprised changes to 1016 different files.
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</p>
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<p>
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This work has turned the IETF Datatracker website into a responsive website which
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support use on a much larger variety of devices, from small mobile devices to desktops.
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</p>
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<p>
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The work relies heavily on the capabilities of
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<a href="https://getbootstrap.com">Bootstrap</a>,
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and continues to use the
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<a href="https://www.djangoproject.org/">Django</a>
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framework which the datatracker has been build on since
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<a href="/release/2.00/">
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version
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2.00
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</a>.
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It also uses icons from
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<a href="https://fontawesome.com/">FontAwesome</a>,
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and functions from
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<a href="https://django-bootstrap3.readthedocs.org/">django-bootstrap3</a>.
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</p>
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<p>
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Additional
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<a href="https://trac.ietf.org/trac/ietfdb/log/branch/iola?rev=9116&stop_rev=8520&limit=200">
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page conversion work
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</a>
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has been done by <i>Ole Laursen</i>, with
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<a href="https://trac.ietf.org/trac/ietfdb/log/personal/henrik/facelift-r9116">
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final style tweaks, bug-fixes and adaptations
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</a>
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by <i>Henrik Levkowetz</i>, giving it a distinct
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<a href="https://www.colourlovers.com/palette/3702908/Key_West_Sunset">colour palette</a>
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(with the addition of complementing green and red colours for success and error indications),
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and a selection of fonts from
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<a href="https://www.paratype.com/public/">ParaType</a>
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(<a href="https://www.identifont.com/show?2G32">PT Serif</a>
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for body text,
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<a href="https://www.identifont.com/show?2G2G">PT Sans Caption</a>
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for headers,
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<a href="https://www.identifont.com/show?2G2F">PT Sans</a>
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for menus,
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and PT Mono for monospaced documents). (Even if PT Sans Caption was
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created as a 'Caption' (6-8pt)
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Font#Optical_size">optical size</a>
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font to go with PT Sans, it works well for headers when paired with PT Serif.)
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</p>
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<h2>Version 5.x Work</h2>
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<p>
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Between the release of 5.0.0 in January 2014 and the last release in the 5.x series in
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April 2015, there were 42 releases containing bug fixes and features. Worth mentioning
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were 4 code sprint releases, added support for the secretariat's agenda scheduling work,
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the addition of pages for
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<a href="/rg/">Research Groups</a>
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and
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<a href="/group/edu">Teams</a>,
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a
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<a href="/api/v1/?format=json">JSON interface</a>
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to the
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database for tool builders, improved
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<a href="/ipr/">
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IPR support
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</a>,
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a move to Django 1.7,
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and many
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<a href="https://trac.ietf.org/trac/ietfdb/wiki/Testing?version=13">
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improvements in testing support
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</a>.
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</p>
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<h2>
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Version 5.0.0: Shim Removal
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</h2>
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<div class="alert alert-info my-3">
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To be written.
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</div>
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<h2>
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Version 4.00: New Database Schema
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</h2>
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<div class="alert alert-info my-3">
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To be written.
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</div>
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<h2>
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Version 3.00: Django Port of the IESG Datatracker Pages
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</h2>
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<div class="alert alert-info my-3">
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To be written.
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</div>
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<h2>
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Version 2.00: Django Port of the Public Datatracker Pages
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</h2>
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<p>
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This release was a complete re-write of the CGI/Perl-based IESG datatracker
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in Python, using the Django framework. It comprised about 8000 lines of
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Python code, and 6000 lines of template code. The work was done as a
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skunkworks project by Bill Fenner and Henrik Levkowetz from mid-April
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to mid-May 2007, and continued as an official project from then on. The
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aim was to eliminate numerous SQL injection insecurities in the current
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code, and also provide a better framework on which to build future enhancements.
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During the most intensive period, Bill and Henrik worked 10 hours per day
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to get all public pages ported and released. The release was deployed
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in the early hours of 28 June 2007, and nobody noticed the change :-))
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</p>
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<h2>
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Version 1.0: Initial Perl/MySQL database and web-pages
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</h2>
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<p>
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The first version of the idtracker was commissioned by the IESG under <i>Harald
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Alvestrand</i> in 2001, and the IESG started using it at the beginning of 2002. It was
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written by <i>Michael Lee</i> in Perl, with direct SQL statements. It provided a
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major improvement in visibility of the progress of drafts by the IESG.
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The first
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<a href="https://www.ietf.org/proceedings/55/slides/plenary-6/plenary-6.ppt">
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public presentation
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</a>
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of it and its capabilities was made 2002-11-20
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in Atlanta by Thomas Narten.
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</p>
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{% endblock %} |