Re: br element bidi test

Thanks!

Any recommendation for the location (existing path and new folder name) in
which to put our tests? Neither company name nor an individual's name seem
right. How about html5bidi?

Aharon

On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 8:56 PM, James Graham <jgraham@opera.com> wrote:

>
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> On Thu, 3 Nov 2011, Aharon (Vladimir) Lanin wrote:
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>  This is the first of hopefully many tests authored by html5bidi, a group
>> formed under the auspices of the W3C's Israel office for the purpose of
>> writing tests for the bidirectional features added in
>> HTML5 and CSS3.
>>
>
> This sounds awesome!
>
>
>
>  It is a very simple test, and by submitting it separately, we primarily
>> want to make sure that it is in an acceptable format before we send a whole
>> bunch more.
>>
>
> From a quick glance, it seems to be fine.
>
>
>  Since the feature being tested is an aspect of rendering, and has no
>> scripting/API component, the test is in the self-describing ref-test format.
>>
>
> Yes, that is the right choice.
>
>
>  In terms of licensing, I am not sure what needs to be done. Some members
>> of the group, like myself, work for (various) W3C member companies, and
>> some work for the W3C itself, but some are not in
>> either group.
>>
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> The test needs to be licensed under the BSD/W3C testsuite license [1]. As
> long as all relevant stakeholders are happy with the licensing, I guess
> there isn't a problem (but I Am Not A Laywer, etc.).
>
>
>  In any case, the test is at https://github.com/amire80/**
>> html5-bidi-tests/raw/master/**html5/br-bidi.html<https://github.com/amire80/html5-bidi-tests/raw/master/html5/br-bidi.html>,
>> with the ref at https://github.com/amire80/**html5-bidi-tests/raw/master/
>> **html5/br-bidi-ref.html<https://github.com/amire80/html5-bidi-tests/raw/master/html5/br-bidi-ref.html>
>> .
>>
>
> Right, the next step is to upload it to the html testsuite. We use
> mercurial rather then git, but it should be quite straightforward if you
> aren't already famiiar with it. The full set of instructions are at [2].
>
> Thanks again for this effort; I personally am really enthusiastic about
> getting more automatable tests for this area of the spec.
>
> [1] http://www.w3.org/Consortium/**Legal/2008/04-testsuite-**
> copyright.html<http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/2008/04-testsuite-copyright.html>
> [2] http://www.w3.org/html/wg/**wiki/Testing/Submission/<http://www.w3.org/html/wg/wiki/Testing/Submission/>
>