There were a few surprises during the Datatracker database conversion that
caused it to take longer than planned, but in the end the conversion was
successful.
At 07:01 PST the Datatracker was switched to the converted database. So far,
everything looks good. Of course, we are keeping an eye
Thanks for all of the testing. Several bugs were found and fixed. At this
time there are no show stopper bugs, so we will convert to the new Datatracker
database this weekend. Of course, to be prudent, we will run a complete backup
before we being the database conversion.
The database
Thank you for testing the new Datatracker. You have uncovered several bugs,
and they have all been fixed.
We still want to achieve a nearly unnoticeable change-over, so please make sure
the Datatracker fully supports the way that you use the current Datatracker.
Unless a significant bug is
Shortly, the IETF datatracker will go through a major change, one of the two
largest since it was first deployed more than 10 years ago. Hopefully no one
will notice.
The previous major change was in 2007, when we switched the public Datatracker
from Perl cgi-bin scripts to a much more
