Re: PROPOSED RESOLUTION: merge csswg-test into web-platform-tests

We are very excited to see this work move into the WPT space!

On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 5:53 AM, Ms2ger <ms2ger@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 27/09/16 18:23, Geoffrey Sneddon wrote:
> > (Bcc'd public-css-testsuite and public-test-infra; this pertains to a
> > CSS WG proposed resolution and hence we should keep discussion on the
> > CSS WG's public mailing list.)
> >
> > The proposed resolution is to merge csswg-test into
> > web-platform-tests, doing the following:
> >
> > 1. Land https://github.com/w3c/wpt-tools/pull/90 into wpt-tools so
> > that the web-platform-tests tools create an accurate manifest (i.e.,
> > list of tests) for the CSS testsuite.
> >
> > 2. Add a number of lints to wpt-tools, for the (currently
> > non-existent) css subdirectory, to ensure that the build system keeps
> > working (primarily we need lints to ensure that we have no duplicate
> > file-extensionless-basenames that aren't byte-for-byte identical and
> > that all files referenced by test files are in an adjacent support or
> > reference directory, with a couple of exceptions).
> >
> > 3. Ensure web-platform-tests's documentation is up-to-date and
> > cohesive, both for submitting tests and reviewing them. Especially
> > make sure it's easier to find documentation than it is currently!
> >
> > 4. Make https://hg.csswg.org/test/ and http://test.csswg.org/shepherd/
> > read-only. (Really this can be any step up until this point; exact
> > timing doesn't matter.)
> >
> > 5. Merge csswg-test into web-platform-tests, in a css/ subdirectory,
> > maintaining all csswg-test history. (Do we want to copy w3ctestlib and
> > apiclient into it as well, given they currently live in Mercurial, and
> > are needed to build?)
> >
> > 6. Move over, at the very least, all open issues and PRs from the
> > csswg-test repository.
> >
> > 7. (Sometime in the more distant future) drop the current build system
> > and the lints we had for its requirements.
> >
> > I believe Alan's opinion was to give people a week to respond on the
> > mailing list and then potentially have a final call for objections (or
> > discussion!) on the next telecon (5 Oct). I'll let the chairs to say
> > what they want to do, though. :)
>
> Strongly support all of this. Thanks for doing the work.
>
> Ms2ger
>
>
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