On 22/09/14 13:16, Robin Berjon wrote: > I can't say it has brought about a revolution yet, but it has certainly > helped change minds. It's hard to argue against a continuously updated > test suite. It's hard to imagine that such an animal wouldn't find spec > bugs in addition to implementation bugs. It's hard to justify knowing > about bugs and not shipping an update. Things tend to make their own way > from there.
That sounds like a plausible story; let's hope the truth is something close to it. >> However if we as an organisation really care about testing >> core platform features which already have an implementation in gecko, >> one way to achieve that would be to give someone working on Servo the >> explicit job of creating testsuites for the big-ticket features they >> implement as they implement them. > > That would certainly be helpful. > > In addition, I would note that while a shared test suite benefits > everyone. At this point Mozilla has proven to be a huge contributor to > the WPT project (with Opera's massive release of tests another notable > help) but we have not yet seen comparable commitments from the other > browser vendors. So any help you can provide in convincing people to > contribute is very welcome. Yes, getting more contributions from all vendors would be a big improvement. However I think it's worth noting that others have made contributions; for example Google have contributed a number of testsuites for new technologies they are implementing. > Well, my plan is to move pretty much there in a matter of months. For me > that's the biggest value in putting HTML5 out of the door: it frees up a > lot of flexibility (and energy) in how things are done from now on. If this happens it will be great progress. I fear there is still a lot of stop energy for large changes, but I guess trying to push them through is the only way to find out of that's actually the case. _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
