Re: APG build fail

On 08/11/2016 11:55 AM, Michiel Bijl wrote:
> How do you the manual build? Because I don't see the build button 
> Michael talked about.
brief instructions are at 
https://github.com/w3c/aria-practices/#user-content-how-to-update-document-snapshot

I don't know who has permission to see the restart build button. I 
thought anybody with commit access to the repo had it, but maybe not. 
One of those things they don't document...

Michael
>
> —Michiel
>
> On 8 Nov 2016, at 16:47, Matt King <a11ythinker@gmail.com 
> <mailto:a11ythinker@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>> I’ve been building manually for now.
>>
>> *From:*Michael Cooper [mailto:cooper@w3.org]
>> *Sent:* Tuesday, November 8, 2016 6:36 AM
>> *To:* Michiel Bijl <michiel.list@moiety.me 
>> <mailto:michiel.list@moiety.me>>; Matt King <a11ythinker@gmail.com 
>> <mailto:a11ythinker@gmail.com>>
>> *Cc:* ARIA Editors <public-aria-editors@w3.org 
>> <mailto:public-aria-editors@w3.org>>
>> *Subject:* Re: APG build fail
>>
>> I believe this is related to the sporadic non-functionality of Respec 
>> that I've been seeing for weeks now. Shane has worked with the 
>> systems people on this, and they did something to make it happen less 
>> often, but it still happens. In particular, it seems that to get 
>> respec-enabled documents to display properly in some browsers it 
>> requires a refresh [Chrome] (in other browsers [Firefox] even that 
>> doesn't work and it's just random luck as to whether Respec works). 
>> Because the spec-generator service doesn't refresh, it just fails. 
>> Shane said the spec-generator doesn't use a browser, but it does seem 
>> to me to fail in the same frequency that browsers do
>>
>> I still don't know what is causing the failure - a change in browser 
>> security models, some subtle thing in the source of our documents 
>> that isn't obvious, a change to W3C anti-denial of service practices, 
>> some strange bug in Respec - so I haven't known who to file a bug 
>> report with. Shane's attempt to work with the W3C systems people 
>> seems to have produced some results but not resolved the problem; I 
>> believe they're having a hard time duplicating the problem even 
>> though I see it on nearly every document I work with.
>>
>> I've been thinking of trying to come up with a workaround to this, by 
>> including Respec as a library in our repositories rather than 
>> pointing to its location on the W3C server, but until I get the 
>> aria-common library working I won't know how to make that work. I've 
>> also thought of trying to install the spec generator locally within 
>> the build script rather than rely on the online version (that fails a 
>> lot in the best of circumstances), but the documentation is atrocious 
>> and I can't figure out how to get started. It's all on my todo list, 
>> and perhaps I need to escalate with more knowledgeable people.
>>
>> In the meantime, since the problem seems to be sporadic, you can 
>> always try to restart the build. For practices, go to 
>> https://travis-ci.org/w3c/aria-practices/ and hit "Restart build". I 
>> just tried this and it didn't work, but sometimes I have seen it work.
>>
>> Michael
>>
>> On 08/11/2016 8:32 AM, Michiel Bijl wrote:
>>
>>     Hi,
>>
>>     Ever since pull request #147
>>     <https://github.com/w3c/aria-practices/issues/147> was merged
>>     into master the build is failing again. I’m not quite sure how to
>>     fix this, but could somebody look at it? If you know what it is
>>     I’d love to learn for next time this happens.
>>
>>
>>     —Michiel
>>