Last week we started implementing a unit testing framework for Xaraya, which is highly integrated with the bitkeeper repository. As of now it allows you to register testsuites and testcases which can be run once or repeatedly with bk tests I expected this to be an investment for the long run. The longer we used it, …

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xmlhack: Expressing mixed content in RELAX NG versus WXS http://xmlhack.com/read.php?item=1880 This is a nice reference. We are experimenting with expressing the blocklayout language in RNG, exactly because the XSD stuff is just plain unreadable. The RelaxMeter test for ambiguity is especially interesting for checking …

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The documents in which these protocols are described are called RFC-s (Request For Comments) and they are subject to a complicated process of drafting, reviewing becoming a proposal and utlitmately hoping to be a standard…. The funny thing is we have a simple process of writing the RFC, discussing it on our mailing …

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eVote link <p>Well, this would be perfect for Xaraya and DDF operations. The irc voting we sometimes do with the notorious +1 and -1 lines works only so far. If someone doesn't sum up the votes and puts it on a mailinglist, it's quickly forgotten what the vote was about and the decision gets lost in the day-to-day …

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Today the BK-view module I wrote for Xaraya went into a live site which can actually be used for something usefull. The site http://bk.xaraya.com is the BitKeeper central for the Xaraya project. The BK-view module is used to browse through all of the clones used in the project, which is in the mean time a rather large …

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