- From: Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta@iki.fi>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 21:36:00 +0300
- To: QA Dev <public-qa-dev@w3.org>
On Mon, 2005-06-27 at 15:16 +0900, olivier Thereaux wrote: [...] A few things that I don't remember being mentioned here yet, not really improvement ideas but rather some thoughts on why we aren't getting the expected level of contribution: The current validator and link checker codebases are plain scary for newcomers, and sometimes also for the more regular contributors (at least myself). Perl itself is certainly a turn off for some potential contributors, even if the current team working on this stuff is comfortable with it. I don't personally have a problem with that. But the one-huge-script-does-everything approach is a worse problem. Thankfully we'll be getting rid of it in the foreseeable future; assuming we do it Right, the learning curve is improved, and people can contribute to specific parts of the app instead of having to master it all at once. Regarding the CSS validator, I don't remember the exact details (and some of the following might be plain wrong and outdated, apologies in advance). But I have a gut feeling about being turned off because IIRC the initial CVS checkout resulted in a tree with lots of duplicated functionality in several different branches in the checked out tree, non-working build environment, need to use Jigsaw instead of a "standard" Jav appserver I would have been familiar with, and general lack of documentation. A quick peek into the root of the CSS validator's cvsweb tree tells me that things have improved much since I last looked into it, so it could be time to take another look soon.
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