[178938] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BCOP appeals numbering scheme -- feedback requested
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Charles N Wyble)
Sun Mar 15 11:17:47 2015
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From: Charles N Wyble <charles@thefnf.org>
Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2015 10:17:38 -0500
To: Rob Seastrom <rs@seastrom.com>,William Norton <wbn@drpeering.net>
Cc: "bcop-support@nanog.org" <bcop-support@nanog.org>,
"nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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Use a git repository.
Make tagged releases.
This enables far easier distributed editing, translating, mirroring etc. And you can still do whatever release engineering you want.
A wiki is a horrible solution for something like this.
On March 15, 2015 8:24:49 AM CDT, Rob Seastrom <rs@seastrom.com> wrote:
>
>William Norton <wbn@drpeering.net> writes:
>
>> Agreed - Hence the âCurrentâ in the title. Maybe the date of the
>> document will be the key to let people know that they have the most
>> current version.
>
>The date of a single document is of scant use in determining its
>currency unless there is some sort of requirement for periodic
>recertification and gratuitous reissue of BCOPs (for instance,
>anything with a date stamp more than 18 months in the past is
>by definition invalid). That seems like busy work to periodically
>affirm that a good idea is still a good idea, and I don't volunteer
>for this job. :)
>
>I'm on board for wholesale replacement of the document (with revision
>history preserved) rather than the RFC series approach.
>
>The wiki/living document approach others have suggested seems like a
>poor one to me, for the same reason that I dislike the current trend
>of "there's no release tarball, major release, point release, or
>regression testing - just git clone the repository" in free software
>development. Releng is hard and thankless but adds enormous value and
>serves as a forcing function for some level of review, cursory though
>it may be.
>
>-r
>
>
>!DSPAM:55058872288661838712557!
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