Who currently executes the tests in the w3c repos?

Hi all,

I am a relative newcomer to this group but I have been working off and on
recently (quite a bit just now) getting the tests running as part of the
automated tests for Blink and WebKit.

I believe I'm probably missing quite a bit of context or history that makes
it difficult for me to understand some of the design decisions and
processes around getting tests written and submitted and run.

So forgive me if this sounds like a brash question, but it's honestly one
coming from ignorance and not meant to be snarky ...:

Who actually currently runs these tests, and how?

As far as I know, no one in Blink (or WebKit) regularly runs any of these
tests, even manually, with a few exceptions where we have manually imported
some suites into our existing repos. It may also be the case that some
times individual developers or spec editors have run some of the tests.
>From my limited conversations w/ Fantasai, I believe the situation is
similar for Mozilla. I do not know about efforts inside Microsoft or at
Opera, or at any other browser vendor or third party.

Are there groups that actually do attempt to run the tests somehow on the
different browsers? Does that somehow happen in Shepherd in a way I don't
know about (or understand)?

I would like to be able to usefully contribute to threads like
"consolidating css-wg and web-platform-tests repositories" and talk about
the pain points I'm hitting as I try to get the tests running, but it's
hard for me to say useful things w/o knowing more about how others are
using all of this. So, I'm looking to become educated?

Cheers,

-- Dirk