It would seem that the bugzilla
   https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23710
would fall under that category, and to note that it is still marked as  
new.  Can it be tied to this process?

Regards, Andrew


Quoting Brion Vibber <[email protected]>:

> On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 2:08 PM, Conrad Irwin <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Out of interest, do you know what percentage of emails in the database
>> don't validate under the new scheme?
>>
>
> That's actually a wise thing to check -- most fails will probably be
> legitimately bogus entries, but if we can find any that don't validate but
> *do* work (eg they've been confirmed as functional) that's info we need to
> report upstream as well -- the new code is using the  specs for HTML 5's
> client-side form validation, which is starting to go into the latest
> generation of browsers.
>
> In theory the validation rules should be pretty liberal, and you should need
> to do something very esoteric to not pass. (The old validation regexes from
> ~2004-2005 got kicked out for failing to deal with things like '+' which
> turned out to be more common than we thought.)
>
> Folks actually already pushed a fix upstream to the whatwg spec page to
> allow single-part domains like 'localhost', needed for local-network testing
> and perhaps some weird intranet setups.
>
> -- brion
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