ietf-gh-scripts

Scripts to create GH repo's for IETF WG's

The IETF had a couple of WG chair sessions on this, a BoF, an I-D, and most recently a draft charter was posted on IETF and GitHub.

Martin Thomson has some very nice scripts to manage IETF documents via GitHub. He's talked about it a couple of times, most recently at the WGCHAIRS lunch at IETF 102. At that time, I asked about tools to create the infrastructure -- GitHub organization, repositories for the drafts, and so on -- and therefore volunteered to make said tools.

In the month or so afterwards, there was some useful discussion on the WGCHAIRS mailing list and requirements were fleshed out. This repository is the result. It's written in Python and uses the awesome GitHub Python API bindings; see BUILD.md for details.

For example, if SLOW is a new IETF working group with a bad-protocol draft, this creates a GitHub ietf-wg-slow organization, some groups, and a repository draft-slow-bad-protocol to hold the draft, common labels for issues, integration with Martin's tools, and so on.

The two main scripts are:

• make-ietf-wg: Creates an Organization for a working group
• make-ietf-draft: Creates a repository within an existing org for an I-D

There's also one for individual drafts that creates a repo in the user's account:

• make-indiv-draft

If you're not comfortable with building and running these tools, and just want to get things set up so that you can use GitHub, that's okay. Just ask someone who is familiar to run the tools for you (and remind them to remove themselves from the owner group afterwards).

Look at the issues list to see what's missing. Make pull requests. :)