Subject: [datatracker-rqmts] Expected user interactions in draft-ietf-genarea-datatracker-community

From: Paul Hoffman <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 14:42:17 -0700

First off, greetings. Some of you have contacted me off-list, and I'm hoping all of those people are now on-list so we can get the discussion happening here.

One thing that was pointed out to me was that the initial draft didn't include a description of what the expected interaction that a user of the extended Datatracker would be. I propose the following, but am completely open to suggestions for other models of interaction.

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When a user wants to follow a group of drafts, he or she goes to the Datatracker and creates a new list. The requirements for lists are given in Section 2.1. After a list is created, the user has three ways that he or she might see when drafts in the list are updated:

- By going to the Datatracker page for the list (see Section 2.3)

- By subscribing to the Atom feed for the list (see Section 2.2.2) in a feed reader that automatically fetches updates

- By subscribing to the mail stream for the list (see Section 2.2.3) and reading the stream in their mail reader

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Should I be saying more here, and if so, what?

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