@@ -37,6 +37,16 @@ <h1>About the IETF Datatracker</h1>
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3838 </ p >
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40+ < h2 > Version 6.x Work</ h2 >
41+ < p >
42+
43+ Between the release of 6.0.0 in April 2015 and the < a href ="/release/ "> latest release</ a >
44+ there has been numerous releases (75, as of 11 Feb 2017) which has extended the
45+ functionality of the datatracker substantially. The < a href ="/release/#release-list "> release list</ a >
46+ gives more information.
47+
48+ </ p >
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4050 < h2 > Version 6.0.0: Facelift using Bootstrap</ h2 >
4151 < p >
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@@ -85,7 +95,7 @@ <h2>Version 6.0.0: Facelift using Bootstrap</h2>
8595 optical size</ a > font to go with PT Sans, it works well for headers when paired with PT Serif.)
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8797 </ p >
88- < h3 > Version 5.x Work</ h3 >
98+ < h2 > Version 5.x Work</ h2 >
8999 < p >
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91101 Between the release of 5.0.0 in January 2014 and the last release in the 5.x series in
@@ -119,9 +129,18 @@ <h2>Version 3.00: Django Port of the IESG Datatracker Pages</h2>
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120130 < h2 > Version 2.00: Django Port of the Public Datatracker Pages</ h2 >
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122- < div class ="alert-info ">
123- To be written.
124- </ div >
132+ < p >
133+ This release was a complete re-write of the CGI/Perl-based IESG datatracker
134+ in Python, using the Django framework. It comprised about 8000 lines of
135+ Python code, and 6000 lines of template code. The work was done as a
136+ skunkworks project by Bill Fenner and Henrik Levkowetz from mid-April
137+ to mid-May 2007, and continued as an official project from then on. The
138+ aim was to eliminate numerous SQL injection insecurities in the current
139+ code, and also provide a better framework on which to build future enhancements.
140+ During the most intensive period, Bill and Henrik worked 10 hours per day
141+ to get all public pages ported and released. The release was deployed
142+ in the early hours of 28 June 2007, and nobody noticed the change :-))
143+ </ p >
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126145 < h2 > Version 1.0: Initial Perl/MySQL database and web-pages</ h2 >
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