>> I believe that there are still IPR policy issues that need to be worked >> through before any test suite development that is affiliated with ECMA/T39 >> could accept contributions from organizations or individuals who do not have >> an ECMA membership affiliation. An advantage of the current >> google/codeplex/mozilla projects, is that they don't have this restriction. >> While ecmascript.org is not exactly officially associated with ECMA/TC-39 it >> is close enough that I don't think we should try to host a test suite >> project there until we resolve the IPR issues.
I agree that for ECMA to give its stamp of approval, whatever form that might take, causes extra complications. But I don't know why ecmascript.org should be so closely linked with ECMA that we can't use it for this. Isn't it up to us, Brendan really, to decide how to use it? > My main concern about these projects is not hosting or control, but the fact > that there are several of them. I think it would be more useful to the > community to have a single ECMAScript conformance test suite, covering all > of ES5, including the bits inherited from ES3. If all parties are willing to > use one of the existing sites for hosting, that is not a problem as far as > I'm concerned. I think it's important that this is and is perceived as, now and in the long run, a vendor neutral project. If we host it with vendor A, for any choice of A including google, it's much too easy for people to consider it A's project, and in particularly for other vendors to not consider it theirs. > Note: the WebKit project has a number of ECMAScript tests at > <http://trac.webkit.org/browser/trunk/LayoutTests/fast/js>, though we have > not sorted over them to determine which are for ECMAScript proper rather > than extensions, and which would be suitable as conforamance tests. We would > consider donating tests to a shared ECMAScript conformance test suite if > there were a single canonical test suite. Many of our tests cover edge cases > that may not otherwise be covered by a conformance suite. I've been using the ES5 layout tests myself and they are indeed very thorough. Having them be part of the common test suite would be excellent. -- Christian _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list es-discuss@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
