[OH-Dev] Need some guidance on how to handle Issue 971

[Carol Willing]

Hi Eeshan,

I'm glad that you reached out to the larger OpenHatch development list. 
Super nice to see you continuing to contribute after your help at the 
PyCon sprints :-)

I'm sure that paulproteus will chime in when he is able. A couple of the 
wonderful things about him, which you probably noticed at the sprints, 
are that he's very committed to sharing his knowledge and insights with 
others and he will respond thoughtfully and generously when he is able. 
Sometimes, I wonder if he ever sleeps :-)

As for direction, I think Elana has giving you some good guidance about 
thinking those without a fully compliant browser. I'm more of a back-end 
developer so I'm not able to give a concrete answer on approach. In 
addition to Elana's comments, I would search the OpenHatch wiki, 
readthedocs documentation, and the issue tracker since sometimes that 
can lead to nuggets of technical direction.

Please keep asking questions either here or on IRC. We'll do our best to 
help you get the information that will help you move forward :)

Regards,
Carol
aka willingc

On 5/9/14, 7:49 AM, Elana Hashman wrote:
> Hi Eeshan,
>
> Though I'm not paulproteus I have a couple of thoughts for you.
>
> First is one of backwards compatibility. While tt tags may be 
> deprecated in html5, this does not mean everyone visiting our site 
> will have a compliant, up-to-date, html5-supporting browser. So 
> whatever solution you determine, we should make sure it doesn't break 
> the site for people not running the latest and greatest. I'm not sure 
> what our compatibility policy is for fixes like this; perhaps willingc 
> or paulproteus knows.
>
> Second, kbd vs samp gives more information than tt, so I'd recommend 
> that they're used appropriately if you decide to employ them: that is, 
> use kbd for tt elements that represent user input, and samp for 
> output. It wasn't clear to me if you wanted to pick one over the other 
> from your bug report.
>
> Once you figure out what the best policy is in terms of backwards 
> compatibility for browsers still supporting the tt tags, I'd say 
> you're good to go!
>
> - e
>
>
> *From: *Eeshan Garg
> *Sent: *Friday, May 9, 2014 10:37 AM
> *To: *devel at lists.openhatch.org
> *Reply To: *OpenHatch development
> *Subject: *[OH-Dev] Need some guidance on how to handle Issue 971
>
>
> Hi!
>
> I am a new contributor and I created an issue a couple of weeks ago 
> regarding the <tt> tag (deprecated in HTML5). More details at: 
> <http://openhatch.org/bugs/issue971>. I proposed some solutions to 
> this problem and needed some guidance as to whether they were okay and 
> worth implementing, but there was no activity on the issue. So, I 
> asked for advice on IRC and was told that I should ask aldeka or 
> paulproteus about this.
>
> On IRC, I was also told that the solution that I proposed (link above) 
> is okay but was advised to get a +1 from paulproteus first before 
> making a commit. I tried to contact paulproteus on IRC but I guess due 
> to the time differences, didn't hear back from him (I also checked the 
> IRC logs). I was told on IRC that if I couldn't contact paulproteus on 
> IRC, I should post my query to the mailing list.
>
> So I would really appreciate it if paulproteus could give me a little 
> bit of guidance as to what I should I do next. I am really looking 
> forward to put in the time and effort to work on and resolve this 
> task, but as I am new to programming and open source, I just need a 
> pointer from time to time. Also, a big thanks to the OpenHatch 
> community, you guys are amazing, I am learning a lot and having a lot 
> of fun. :)
>
> Thanks & regards,
> Eeshan Garg
> <https://github.com/eeshangarg>
>
>
>
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Carol Willing
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