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Archive the (even older) ECMAScript bug tracker #5

Open IgnoredAmbience opened 6 years ago

IgnoredAmbience commented 6 years ago

From initial glances at the old wiki for #1, it appears that there was a bug tracker before bugzilla. It was a Trac instance originally hosted at http://bugs.ecmascript-lang.org/, but later at the http://bugs.ecmascript.org/ subdomain.

This bugtracker was last recorded online by the Internet Archive on 2010-10-15. The first ticket in the bugzilla instance is for 2011-02-04.

Lists of tickets available from the wayback machine in html, xml+rss and csv/tsv from the following URLs:

It may be the case that a dump of the tickets was taken at the time of migration and archived for Ecma. If so, would a public archive of that data here be viable? If not, then a similar process to the wiki archival (#1) should probably be used here if this bug tracker is considered to contain useful information.

allenwb commented 6 years ago

(fixed the markdown for the wildcard ticket URLs in the original post so they work when clicked)

Thanks for finding this. I thought it was completely lost. There has been occasion when I wished I could refer to it because I knew there were ticketss there that help explain some of the design decisions that were made for ES5.

It looks like most (all?) of the tickets are actually there via the bugs.ecmascript.org/ticket wildcard. But not in a very convenient form. However, it does appear that once you access a ticket you can sequentially step through them all using next ticket/previous ticket.

We should at least add this to the list of known ES historical resources (do we have such a list yet?) I've added it to my personal list.

If anybody has an idea of whether a final backup of Trac was taken it would probably be @dherman

IgnoredAmbience commented 6 years ago

I'll add it to my backlog of things to rescue from the internet archive(s) then.

littledan commented 6 years ago

I didn't know about this--thanks for the reference. I just opened a random one and was pleased to see that we followed through with a fix: https://web.archive.org/web/20090106211645/http://bugs.ecmascript-lang.org/ticket/256 cc @mathiasbynens

Is there any chance that someone in the committee has archived this? The wayback machine looks like it may be incomplete here, judging from bug numbers. Cc @tschneidereit.