#microformats 2023-06-26

2023-06-26 UTC
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[jacky] Agreed on that. I'd be down to contribute some test cases
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JKing The biggest time sink for me was that backcompat information isn't available in a clear, concise format in one place. You have to either scan multiple parts of the microformats2 page, or the individual v2 vocabulary pages. Actually, you have to look at both, because each omits information the other has. And the test suite also relies on stuff neither documents (viz. hNews), and contradicts the documentation in a few places.
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JKing I had to twice redesign how to handle backcompat information because I didn't have the whole picture, and I _still_ need to redesign a core part of my parser to accommodate includes, which I didn't even know existed till I was nearly finished testing.
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[tantek] We need to encourage more TDD when implementing a microformats parser, as in if there isn't a test for a feature, we should encourage filing a big requesting a test (and use-case documentation frankly)
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[tantek] filing a bug*
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gRegor Re: https://chat.indieweb.org/microformats/2023-06-25#t1687729250397400
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gRegor I think that's this discussion: https://github.com/microformats/microformats2-parsing/issues/15
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Loqi [preview] [JKing] The hardest part of testing was figuring out that multiple implementations were using a different text trimming algorithm (one of your devising, I understand) than what the parsing spec actually mandates. I did eventually find the documentation on th...
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Loqi [preview] [Zegnat] #15 What should mf2 textContent parsing result in? User expectation vs. DOM specification.
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capjamesg Can we discuss https://github.com/microformats/mf2py/issues/164 in more depth?
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capjamesg There is a lot of opportunity to modernize the package but we are lacking a maintainer.
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Loqi [preview] [tommorris] #164 Make project build process and infrastructure modern
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[aciccarello] I was wondering about some of the node mf2 packages too. I need to look more into contributing
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capjamesg To be clear, I would be happy to take on a co-maintainer role of mf2py, assuming there was support from contributors / owners.
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capjamesg Where co- would require someone else who would be willing and able to peer review. I spoke with angelo about this earlier and he said he would be able to help.
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capjamesg angelo has already done work on the modernization ticket.
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capjamesg I would like to see work move forward on the repo; start resolving and closing issues.
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capjamesg And I'm happy to do that!
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[tantek] capjamesg++ I support both you and Angelo in this
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