Re: distinguishing bikeshed errors better in drafts.{csswg,fxtf,css-houdini}.org status

Yeah, good point. The system actually already tracks three error states:
* bikeshed fatal errors but still produced a spec
* bikeshed didn’t produce a spec due to a crash or other issue and the server is serving the previously generated version
* bikeshed didn’t produce a spec and there isn’t a previous version to serve (displays an error page instead)

It was just showing a red icon for all three of those states, but I updated the stylesheet so that the second and third error states are now pulsing red icons (animating opacity), slow pulse for when there’s a previous version to serve, and a fast pulse when there’s nothing to serve. Clicking on the icon should (as always) explain the error state and show any bikeshed output.

I’m happy to tweak further if anyone has a better idea to represent the states.

P

> On Apr 17, 2017, at 1:17 AM, L. David Baron <dbaron@dbaron.org> wrote:
> 
> https://drafts.csswg.org/ https://drafts.fxtf.org/ and
> https://drafts.css-houdini.org/ have a bikeshed icon along the right
> column.  It currently seems to have the state:
> 
> * green: no errors/warnings
> * #08f (light blue): bikeshed warning
> * #aa0 (light olive?): bikeshed link error
> * #d00: red:
>   - bikeshed "fatal error" that was overridden by -f
>   - bikeshed threw an exception and didn't generate a spec
> 
> Perhaps there should be a distinction between these last two --
> failing to generate a spec is substantially worse than the
> overridden bikeshed "fatal errors".  (e.g., css-typed-om and
> css-module-bikeshed are in the fail-to-generate state right now for
> the same bikeshed bug, whereas the other red specs are mostly broken
> biblio stuff, and occasionally other broken linking stuff, or
> indices being broken by lack of a TR entry).
> 
> Maybe a bikeshed exception (or other failure to generate?) should be
> red-on-black or something really serious looking?
> 
> -David
> 
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