On 1 February 2010 19:46, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxw...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 1:28 PM, David Gerard <dger...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> That said, there must be *someone* on this list bloody-minded enough >> to test Wikipedia in every possible browser and file bugs and patches >> accordingly ... > It shouldn't be a question of bloddy-mindedness. The rotting of > support for a single browser version would potential shut out many > tens of thousands of users. It's something worth dedicating some > resources to. I didn't mean "bloody-minded" as a bad thing - I'm presently compiling Xorg from source on various virtualised OSes just for the fun of it and noting that no-one at all could have done a complete Xorg compile in the last year or they would have noticed all the breakages ... I do think that a horribly under-resourced open source project (most of them) can reasonably say "OK, if people want xxx supported, please step forward" and, a year later, saying "OK, zero people came forward to fix xxx, out it goes." It's a pretty powerful and conclusive argument. > Simply verifying functionality with all the *popular* browsers and > platforms is already burdensome. Doing it well (and consistently) > requires some infrastructure, such as a collection of virtualized > client machines. Once that kind of infrastructure is in place and well > oiled the marginal cost of adding a few more test cases should not be > especially great. This sort of automated test harness must have been built already many times for other sites. Presumably someone with MacOS X 10.4 PowerPC can run IE-Mac in Classic for the sake of this. Anyone? Anyone? That is the necessary condition to solve the problem presented by this thread, and also the sufficient one. - d. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
