Autopub fails

[marcoscaceres]

@tabatkins, really sorry to bother you but could use a little BikeShed help... when we try to auto-publish this spec, Echidna fails because the "previous-version" doesn't match the previously published version.

The only way we've managed to get it to work is to manually update "Previous Version:" in the .bs file (which is not amazing). Is there something we need to manually do avoid this problem? I tried deleting "Previous Version:" entirely, but that didn't help :(

[tabatkins]

Ah, Previous Version being manually maintainable (because you don't publish very often and there's a human in the loop) was an assumption of that design.

Hmm. Dated versions should show up in the bibliography data if you're publishing to /TR. I suppose I could have a value that would opt into auto-filling the URL from there. It wouldn't be correct if you hadn't updated your data recently, or if there was a delay in SpecRef, but those are relatively dependable, and you can always fill things in manually if they fall over.

Okay, yeah, I'll add a Previous Version: from biblio BIBLIO-KEY value (allowing you to omit the BIBLIO-KEY part if your versioned unversioned shortname is in the biblio data already). I think that would address this?

[marcoscaceres]

Yes, I think that would address it. Thanks for the confirming what was wrong. I'll update manually for now.

[tabatkins]

And done. Just use Previous Version: from biblio and it'll auto-populate that entry from your bibliography data.

[siusin]

cc @deniak @jennyliang220

[deniak]

@siusin I believe this should be fix with @tabatkins' update

[marcoscaceres]

Sent a PR #130! Thanks again @tabatkins!