Re: [testing] Proposal: close public-webapps-testsuite

Sounds like a great plan to me. I'm not sure automatically forwarding emails to public-webapps is a great fallback.  It might be spammy for us.  I think an auto-reply with references to testing infra. mailing list would be better.

- R. Niwa

> On Apr 2, 2014, at 5:39 AM, Arthur Barstow <art.barstow@nokia.com> wrote:
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> [ Bcc: public-test-infra; Advanced apologies for the cross-posting ]
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> Hi All,
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> WebApps created the [public-webapps-testsuite] (p-w-ts) list when the group's testing effort was centralized in hg/webapps/. Since then, the group adopted Github and [w-p-t] for its testing and all relevant discussions about testing infrastructure are conducted on [public-test-infra] (p-t-i) and in [#testing].
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> Although p-w-ts used to have a low to moderate level of e-mail, the list has effectively become obsoleted by the GH workflow and notifications about important changes in the infrastructure that are relevant to WebApps are not sent to p-w-ts. Consequently, I propose:
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> 1. public-webapps-testsuite be closed (the archive will of course remain)
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> 2. All e-mail sent to p-w-ts will automatically be forwarded to public-webapps. Another option is to automatically reply to the sender and tell them: p-w-ts is closed and to re-send their e-mail to public-webapps.
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> 3. In the event there is a need to discuss one of WebApps' test suites, use the public-webapps list.
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> Any comments or objections to the above?
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> I support #1 and am indifferent about the options in #2 although W3C's SysTeam recommends the later option which seems fine by me.
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> BTW, of the ~50 people subscribed to p-w-ts, almost half of them are also subscribed to p-t-i. Regardless of whether or not this proposal passes, if you want to follow W3C's testing effort I strongly recommend you subscribe to p-t-i.
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> -Thanks, AB
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> [public-webapps-testsuite] <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps-testsuite/>
> [public-test-infra] <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-test-infra/>
> [w-p-t] <https://github.com/w3c/web-platform-tests>
> [#testing] <http://krijnhoetmer.nl/irc-logs/testing/>
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> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject:    ACTION-713: If systeam can autoforward p-w-testsuite to p-test-infra, close p-w-ts (Web Applications Working Group)
> Date:    Tue, 1 Apr 2014 14:33:36 +0000
> From:    ext Web Applications Working Group Issue Tracker <sysbot+tracker@w3.org>
> Reply-To:    Web Applications Working Group <public-webapps@w3.org>
> To:    <art.barstow@nokia.com>
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> ACTION-713: If systeam can autoforward p-w-testsuite to p-test-infra, close p-w-ts (Web Applications Working Group)
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> http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/track/actions/713
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> On: Arthur Barstow
> Due: 2014-04-08
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Received on Monday, 7 April 2014 22:49:55 UTC