- From: Gérard Talbot <css21testsuite@gtalbot.org>
- Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2015 20:25:13 -0400
- To: Geoffrey Sneddon <me@gsnedders.com>
- Cc: public-test-infra@w3.org, Public CSS Test suite mailing list <public-css-testsuite@w3.org>
Le 2015-10-28 04:21, Geoffrey Sneddon a écrit : > [CC'd to public-test-infra; this is really mostly about CSS, can we > avoid > cross-posting replies and keeping them on public-css-testsuite?] > > Myself and fantasai chaired a session at TPAC earlier today on this > subject. The minutes are at < > http://www.w3.org/2015/10/28-testing-minutes.html> (thanks fantasai!). > > Notably: > > * The build system makes it difficult for vendors to upstream their > fixes > and their own tests (as vendors can't just fix the files they run; they > have to find some other file, fix that, and then work out how to build > the > test suite). As a result, they just fix the built files and don't > upstream > the fixes and often avoid updating the copy of the test suite because > it > would trample their fixes. Why they don't fix their submitted tests (their tests in http://test.csswg.org/source/ ) and then re-import the modified test suite in their house system ? Gérard > We should get rid of the build system (at least > insofar as it modifies/moves files), as I don't think anyone likely to > run > the tests doesn't support HTML at this point (yay the HTML5 parser!). > > * We should get rid of metadata, at least in the common case, required > to > submit tests to the the test suite, as this is an impediment to > upstreaming > tests. (See also my recent thread on public-css-testsuite, "Simplifying > metadata".) > > These would make it far easier for browsers to run the up-to-date CSS > test > suite in their CI systems, to push fixes to the test suite, and to > release > tests their have into the test suite. > > /gsnedders -- Test Format Guidelines http://testthewebforward.org/docs/test-format-guidelines.html Test Style Guidelines http://testthewebforward.org/docs/test-style-guidelines.html Test Templates http://testthewebforward.org/docs/test-templates.html CSS Naming Guidelines http://testthewebforward.org/docs/css-naming.html Test Review Checklist http://testthewebforward.org/docs/review-checklist.html CSS Metadata http://testthewebforward.org/docs/css-metadata.html
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