Re: A new GitHub organization for web-platform-tests

What would a structure that doesn't mix tests and infrastructure look like?
Two subdirectories?

On Tue, Apr 3, 2018, 18:23 Mike Pennisi <mike@bocoup.com> wrote:

> One aspect of WPT that I know maintainers have long resigned themselves
> to is
> the directory structure. The project defines test material at the top
> level,
> right alongside metadata, documentation, and infrastructure code. This
> makes it
> difficult for folks to orient themselves. It also increases the
> complexity of
> tooling since it must special-case certain files and folders when
> discovering
> tests.
>
> I think James is right that GitHub will smooth the transition for basic
> fetch/push operations. But to the extent that some intervention is
> required,
> this could be a good opportunity to ask consumers to also accommodate an
> improvement to the project structure. That's easy for me to say, though,
> I'm
> not a consumer. If this is too much churn, I'd love to hear that feedback
> rather than just politely assume as much.
>
> Philip: do you see the value in such a change? While you're conferring with
> folks about renaming the repository, would you mind also asking about this?
>
>
> On 04/03/2018 06:39 AM, James Graham wrote:
> > On 03/04/2018 10:47, Philip Jägenstedt wrote:
> >> Sounds like there aren't any obvious org names that are better than
> >> https://github.com/web-platform-tests, so let's say that plan A is
> >> https://github.com/web-platform-tests/wpt.
> >>
> >> The rename itself is easy and making sure that things don't break in the
> >> browser repos that import/export WPT is the hard part. I'll ask around
> >> about what needs to be done in advance, come up with a transition
> >> plan, and
> >> then send it out to this list for review.
> >
> >
> > I think as long as we move the repository in the GitHub UI GitHub sets
> > ups redirects, so I'm mildly confident it will work without any
> > changes. There could be some issues around hooks, and permissions, and
> > so on that I haven't considered, however.
> >
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