fix: Ignore failure to extract text draft title unless it is needed

ietf/submit/utils.py

@@ -1216,10 +1216,6 @@ def process_submission_text(filename, revision):
     title = text_draft.get_title()
     if title:
         title = _normalize_title(title)
-    if not title:
-        # This test doesn't work well - the text_draft parser tends to grab "Abstract" as
-        # the title if there's an empty title.
-        raise SubmissionError("Could not extract a title from the text")
 
     # Drops \r, \n, <, >. Based on get_draft_meta() behavior
     trans_table = str.maketrans("", "", "\r\n<>")
@@ -1235,7 +1231,7 @@ def process_submission_text(filename, revision):
     return {
         "filename": text_draft.filename,
         "rev": text_draft.revision,
-        "title": _normalize_title(text_draft.get_title()),
+        "title": title,
         "authors": authors,
         "abstract": text_draft.get_abstract(),
         "document_date": text_draft.get_creation_date(),
@@ -1288,6 +1284,9 @@ def process_and_validate_submission(submission):
             submission.title = text_metadata["title"]
             submission.authors = text_metadata["authors"]
 
+        if not submission.title:
+            raise SubmissionError("Could not determine the title of the draft")
+
         # Items always to get from text, even when XML is available
         submission.abstract = text_metadata["abstract"]
         submission.document_date = text_metadata["document_date"]