when automerging of tests goes awry

EHLO folks,
As we are all aware, the Chrome team recently began automatically upstreaming their layout tests with their new sync system. Todd Reifsteck, a coworker on perf and networking, brought an issue to my attention that feels like incorrect behavior that resulting because of it. A change is being proposed<https://github.com/w3c/navigation-timing/issues/59> to the navigation timing spec, which Chrome is wanting to implement. They have already implemented the feature, tests and all. As a result when it was merged into Chromium, tests included, it overrode the existing tests in WPT<https://github.com/w3c/web-platform-tests/commit/d24a86b138b2074f32a6f2bbd6ca5de445259dd3> via the sync. Now WPT is testing for behavior that is a breaking change from a previous level of the spec, before the change has even been made to the spec.

This feels wrong to me, but I was interested in what everyone else thought the behavior should be.

patrick

Received on Monday, 6 March 2017 23:37:15 UTC