w3c / w3c/guide

Specify where to report an issue when one isn't certain which repository to report to.

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Since Feb 2, 2026.

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Description

Some W3C services might not correspond 1:1 to public repositories, and some might be obscurely named. A place to recommend untriaged bugs be reported to for transfer (which GitHub supports) would be an improvement. Otherwise, I would report them to .github/issues by default.

Some examples of when this would be of use are:

  1. ...when reporting bugs to Tracker (like WAI/APA/track/users/?login): ^1

    Tracker's code (which resides in WWW/2005/06/tracker/src) hasn't been released at this stage, as it relies on the specific schemas of W3C internal databases.

  2. When reporting documentation problems, like w3c/process/issues/130#issuecomment-3349176507 describes. An example of one of these is /html/body/p[9] of w3.org/2019/01/bugzilla-shutdown.html#migration)'s placeholder:

    (this section still needs work)

Obviously, no correspondent repositories, nor Bugzilla products, exist for those. ^2

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  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

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