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Bug 24632 - [meta][imports]: The spec should have fewer monkey patches
Summary: [meta][imports]: The spec should have fewer monkey patches
Status: RESOLVED LATER
Alias: None
Product: WebAppsWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HISTORICAL - Component Model (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC Linux
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Dimitri Glazkov
QA Contact: public-webapps-bugzilla
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Depends on: 24637 24643 25566
Blocks: 20683
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Reported: 2014-02-12 18:31 UTC by Morrita Hajime
Modified: 2014-05-06 07:57 UTC (History)
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Description Morrita Hajime 2014-02-12 18:31:02 UTC 
Spawned from Bug 24623:

> In general we should avoid monkey patching. 1) A specification may not be aware  
> of the patches being applied and invalidate them. 2) Readers of a specification 
> may not be aware of the patches being applied and write code that turns out to  
> be wrong due to patches. 3) If patches start getting applied from multiple
> sources the mental model quickly becomes too hard and mistakes start creeping 
>in all over.

We have some for now. This is a master bug to track these to be removed.