Re: Consolidating css-wg and web-platform-tests repositories (Was: test suite meta data)

On 8/1/13 9:37 AM, "Linss, Peter" <peter.linss@hp.com> wrote:

>
>On Jul 31, 2013, at 3:43 PM, Tobie Langel wrote:
>
>> On Thursday, August 1, 2013 at 12:36 AM, Rebecca Hauck wrote:
>>> This all looks great, but I'm wondering/hoping if this is code that
>>>can be
>>> run on the csswg-test repo as well. It's proving to be
>>>super-complicated
>>> trying to document both worlds. Even if it takes a bit more time to
>>> consolidate the repositories, it would be great if they ran mostly the
>>> same way in parallel in the interim. Peter Linss, can you comment on
>>>this?
>> 
>> Making that system work for multiple repositories implies some
>>significant refactoring (I've been cutting corners) or setting up a
>>second instance.
>
>I'd be happy to set up a second instance running on csswg.org for the
>interim.

Can you elaborate on what this would mean or look like to contributors?
I'm leery of creating a new repo URL (if that's even what this would mean)
as we've widely broadcast the current one.


>
>> 
>> What is preventing us from consolidating the CSS and web-platform-test
>>repositories at this stage?
>
>The fact that we have ~2000 review comments over the course of two years
>in a pre-existing system that we're not willing to throw away. The plan
>of record is that I'm going to be adapting our existing system to
>integrate with GitHub. Once that's working, and we can merge our existing
>review data, we'll move our tests into the main repo.
>
>Peter

Received on Thursday, 1 August 2013 18:05:41 UTC