Re: APG build fail

I think this was due to the quotes being wrong on the curl command. I've 
changed travis.yml to add quotes around the entire url rather than just 
the &. in the aria-practices repos.

Everything seems to complete correctly now. If there are any issues feel 
free to revert.


On 11/8/2016 9:11 AM, Michael Cooper wrote:
> 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
>>>
>

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