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Encourage "Replaces" when submitting draft

Open becarpenter opened this issue 1 year ago • 2 comments

Description

When a user uploads a draft-ietf-$WGNAME-*-00, it would be very useful if there was an active prompt to fill in the "Replaces" field. In fact the tracker could even autofill the (presumed) name of the replaced draft, if it exists. Reason: it's unfortunate or misleading if the replaced draft is not tagged as "Replaced by".

Code of Conduct

becarpenter avatar Jun 29 '24 04:06 becarpenter

attempting to autofill is fraught with peril (competing or unrelated drafts may have heuristically similar names)

Maybe listing some possible matches in a selection control might help.

Highlighting the replaces field in this case should be straightforward

rjsparks avatar Jul 09 '24 15:07 rjsparks

listing some possible matches in a selection control might help

Yes, that would be a fine idea.

becarpenter avatar Jul 09 '24 20:07 becarpenter