Re: Spec with issue markers [was: Re: HTML5-warnings - request to publish as next heartbeat WD]

Julian Reschke wrote:
> James Graham wrote:
>> I haven't added any ISSUEs with a status of RAISED rather than OPEN 
>> yet. They will be added as soon as I get around to it. If anyone would 
>> like to suggest which section(s) the RAISED issues should be 
>> associated with that would be a considerable help.
>> ...
> 
> How about adding metadata to the issue page, so that information can be 
> discovered automatically. Such as:
> 
> APPLIES-TO-HTML5-SECTION: hyperlink-auditing

Something like that could work although it will be a bit fragile since 
it will rely on scraping magic strings. Probably no more so than the 
rest of the setup though.

I have experimented with ISSUE-4 adding "HTML5-SPEC-SECTIONS 
the-doctype" at the end of the description field. The notes field seems 
more appropriate but appears to be immutable, which I had forgotten. I 
assume that one issue could be associated with more than one section so 
the field would have a space-separated list of markers. The change in 
magic marker string is entirely due to not checking what you originally 
wrote.

Assuming there are no objections I will write some code that uses this 
approach this evening.

Received on Wednesday, 19 August 2009 10:08:37 UTC