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[closed] Re: Old Bugs, Rotting Documentation

From: Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>
Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2007 09:48:46 -0400
To: public-cwm-bugs@w3.org
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> The open bugs list for cwm has some which are over six years old:
>
> http://www.w3.org/2000/10/swap/admin/openBugs.html
>


I have regenerated, Yosi and I are doing a triage.

> But what about more recent bugs? The latest is 2004-05-22, and yet I
> see that bugs are still being filed to this list. The documentation
> seems to be rotting, but the code is too: the cwm-1.0.0 release
> doesn't even work out of the box on Python 2.5 [1]. Can a trivial but
> working update be made, please?
>
> This is the sixth anniversary of one still-open bug which I  
> recently refound:
>
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2001Sep/0052
>
That is fixed in CVS

Tim


> Thanks,
>
> [1] At least it's easy to fix:
> $ sudo emacs /usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/swap/formula.py
> And bung the from __future__ line above the constants.

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