I figured out what was done to create the codepage mess in the dump. I'll
determine by the end of the week the best way to parse it to get out something
that approximates what went in.
Basically this is what the forensics says happened (based on the entries I've
dug into):
In the sourceforge tracker database data is stored in utf-8.
The export function believes that the database data is stored as Windows-1252
and it "converts" it into utf-8.
It then wraps the result in XML and then tells every xml parser to interpret
the result as Latin-1 (after having including a utf-8 BOM at the start of the
XML file!). (we aren't schizophrenic yet, are we?)
Anything that isn't ASCII is basically mangled by the above (utf-8 interpreted
as Windows-1252 converted to utf-8 and interpreted as Latin-1), since any
conforming XML parser will ignore the BOM and do what it was told by the xml
declaration.
I'll probably create something that accepts XML as input and spits out
correctly interpretable XML as output.
Blair
P.S. It appears that file attachments to items in SF's tracker are referenced
but not included in the exported XML.
From: os...@live.com
To: wix-devs@lists.sourceforge.net
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 02:11:47 -0700
Subject: Re: [WiX-devs] New bug database under test
4. I'll take a crack at it, sure. Send it over...
From: r...@robmensching.com
Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2013 07:26:08 -0700
To: wix-devs@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-devs] New bug database under test
1. Good. 2. You'll get used to it. <smile/> 3. Issue #13 tracks that. 4. If
you're really interested, I could send you the mess of an XML file they
provide. It's a mess of data that I had to reconstruct into something halfway
useful.
If it isn't obvious, I'm pretty done dealing with SF and want to get to a
place that can just work better. <smile/>
On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 12:33 AM, Blair Murri <os...@live.com> wrote:
1. I tried again, but the same error didn't repro. I'll try to catch it off
guard again a few times. As far as I recall, it told me the account was
activated at the time..
2. Most sites I've seen use tabs, one to edit in and the other to preview. The
more I think about it the more I like the "always live" preview, but as it was
unexpected. Maybe a note above the edit box mentioning the preview below the
box would have alerted to its presence and I wouldn't have been quite so
weirded out.
3. When I tried again, I realized that my password manager didn't have this
account in it, so I had to reset the password. That worked, but right after
resetting the password I expected to be logged in, and when I went to enter my
bug, it prompted me to log in (again).
4. Maybe we could determine the codepage that SF provides? Blair
From: r...@robmensching.com
Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2013 07:43:03 -0700
To: wix-devs@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-devs] New bug database under test
First of all, did you do all of this before or after you activated your
account? You can't do most things on the site until you validated the email
address used and some error messages may not be as good as they could be in
those cases.
1. Hmm, if you successfully signed in and had activated you account that
should work. If you have a couple minutes, could you bring up the developer
tools in your browser (F12 in IE and Chrome), look at the networking tab, make
sure it is capturing then hit the button. You should hopefully get a bit more
detail about what went wrong. That would help me, I'll look into the issue as
well.
2. Well, it's a Markdown control so what you type above may be rendered
differently below. I the preview hope this helps people that submit bugs
because on SF without indenting XML disappears because the Markdown control hid
it.
3. That similarly should just work. But if you click on new issue but haven't
verified your account then you're going to be prompted to sign in. That may
have been what happened. I'll see if I can improve the error messages for
unverified users.
4. Yeah, the dump provided by SF is less than ideal.
On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 10:56 PM, Blair Murri <os...@live.com> wrote:
1. When I try to submit a bug, I get:
Error! Something went awry while submitting your changes. Please, try again.
There's no indication of just what did go awry, but trying again just repeats
the error message.
2. Also, I don't know if it is cool or disconcerting to see what I am typing
being echoed back to me in the preview area under the box I am typing in. It
did weird me out when I first discovered it was happening.
3. I used the browser back button after logging in and looking at a couple
bugs, then I clicked on "new issue" and had to sign in again. It would be nice
if it didn't forget me so quickly (literally less than 30 seconds after I had
signed in the first time).
4. I noticed on some of the bugs that appear to have been imported from SF that
some codepage mismatch happened in the import.
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