This is triggered by a report from Martin who rightfully pointed out that it's not straightforward to validate wwwdocs changes before committing a change.
Martin, what do you think? Would that have avoided the challenges your ran into? Anything to better clarify or otherwise improve? Gerald Index: about.html =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/gcc/wwwdocs/htdocs/about.html,v retrieving revision 1.28 diff -u -r1.28 about.html --- about.html 6 May 2018 16:19:24 -0000 1.28 +++ about.html 14 May 2018 04:11:25 -0000 +<h3>Validating a change</h3> + +<p>To validate any changes, you can use the <a +href="https://validator.w3.org">W3 Validator</a>. Just replace the +<html> tag at the beginning of the document with the following +snippet and use the "Validate by File Upload" functionality.</p> + +<blockquote><pre> +<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> +<!DOCTYPE html + PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" + "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> +<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> +</pre></blockquote> + <h3>Checking in a change</h3> <p>We recommend you list files explicitly to avoid accidental checkins