Re: [csswg-drafts] CSS tests - how to fix? (#6896)

> Would it be appropriate to get a WG resolution on this, effectively approving that WPT drops support for the old CSS build system requirements?

@foolip Can you define what this means exactly?

> Some of the historical needs for the harness were for tracking fully manual and reference tests, I don't know how/if WPT deals with those these days or if they're still relevant.

IIRC, manual tests aren't managed in any way in WPT, and it's a problem for testing some of our features. I don't buy Tab's argument that the tests are likely broken because they haven't been run; they're much more likely still relevant. And we need *more* such tests, not fewer. There are a lot of platform features that aren't properly tested in WPT *because* they're unreasonable to automate.

@plinss What information is the test harness ingesting from the build system? If it's a manifest file of some kind, we could build an indexer that doesn't actually build the tests (which I agree is a step we no longer need).

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