In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Ian Hickson wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Jul 2001, tradervik wrote:
>> Ian Hickson wrote:
>>> Hear hear. I have the same feelings coming from a standards compliance
>>> point of view -- we have thousands of known bugs, certainly enough to keep
>>> us busy for a year at least (more, at the current rate). What's the rush?
>>
>> I hope the "thousands" is just a bit of "rhetorical exhuberance."
>
> Nope, sorry.
>
> A quick check just now revealed around 3700 open bugs in standards
> compliance components (excluding Mail).
>
> This is around a quarter of the 16,000 open bugs.
>
Amidst the rising sense of panic in this thread, perhaps I should ask how
many of these bugs are in standards that we plan to support for 1.0?
HTML4 has about 60 bugs right now (based on the dependencies for bug 7954,
not the keyword). There are 152 under the css1 keyword, 118 under dom0,
and 75 under dom1, which (IIRC) covers the standards that were originally
pledged for support.
This sounds like a much more reasonable target for the 1.0 release.
>> Is there a way of searching for "standards compliance" bugs? Perhaps there
>> is a keyword similar to the "polish" one for user experience bugs?
>
> This comes close:
>
[query elided to appease my newsreader]
>
> Of course, some of those are minor things, typos in error messages and
> RFEs, for example. But I would say the majority are valid bugs.
>
I would have thought searching by keywords would be a better assessment
for the CSS/DOM/HTML core standards, but you're Standards Guy.
Anyway, while we have plenty of standards bugs, if the numbers above are
accurate, full DOM0+DOM1+HTML4+CSS1 looks like a reasonable goal for the
1.0 release.
--
Chris Hoess
