Improving The HTML Validator

Sam Ruby – Time for a new HTML Validator?:

If people feel that HTML 5 deserves a better validator, I’m willing to invest some time into coding. Are there others interesting in contributing to the coding, the writing up of test cases, or the authoring of documentation?

 Is there a reason we need a new validator instead of just improving the existing one? The source code is available in CVS and there’s some brief instructions on how to contribute. Admittedly it doesn’t look like the easiest project on earth to jump into but it looks possible to do so. Is noone around to accept and apply patches?

There does seem to be quite a long bug list that people could sink their teeth into if they wanted a better validator.

So, is there a reason we need to start again from scratch that I’m missing?