Re: [Tooling] a new feature installed on our HTML/respec oriented repositories

+1

On 8/21/17, 9:10 AM, "Siegman, Tzviya - Hoboken" <tsiegman@wiley.com>
wrote:

>This is great! Thanks, Tobie
>
>Tzviya Siegman
>Information Standards Lead
>Wiley
>201-748-6884
>tsiegman@wiley.com
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ivan Herman [mailto:ivan@w3.org]
>Sent: Monday, August 21, 2017 3:21 AM
>To: W3C Publishing Working Group <public-publ-wg@w3.org>
>Cc: Tobie Langel <tobie@codespeaks.com>
>Subject: [Tooling] a new feature installed on our HTML/respec oriented
>repositories
>
>One of the problems with the Pull Request mechanism is that it is fairly
>difficult to see what changed, how the new version would really look
>like, etc. Although GitHub gives you the possibility to see the
>differences in the code, and while that is probably perfectly enough when
>GitHub is used for code development, that is not satisfactory when HTML
>files are concerned.
>
>I have configured, called PR Review (developed by Tobie Langel) which
>helps this. If you look at the latest PR[1], you will see, at the bottom
>of the comment, references to 'Preview' and to 'Diff'. The former
>provides a link to a preview (ie, with respec processed), and the latter
>shows a readable diff (not a diff on the html source but on the way the
>text has changed). (In this very case the latter is not necessary very
>useful because Matt has changed a lot but, in general, I believe that can
>be extremely useful, too). This links, and the modification of the
>comment to add these links, is done automatically. Note that if an extra
>commit is made on the branch that is to be PR-d, the links are
>automatically updated.
>
>I cc-d Tobie to thank him for this tool. I believe it will make our life
>easier.
>
>Cheers
>
>Ivan
>
>P.S. Some of you may have seen that there has been a bunch of seemingly
>unnecessary PR-s on the pwpub repository a few weeks ago: that was due to
>the fact that some problems with respec, related to this tool, came to
>the fore. However, Tobie and Marcos have successfully tracked this down
>and the tool is now operational.
>
>[1] https://github.com/w3c/wpub/pull/43
>
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>Ivan Herman, W3C 
>Publishing@W3C Technical Lead
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>
>
>

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