Re: Proposal to recreate the xslt40-test repository

Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com> writes:
> When I generate new tests, I often want them to go into both, and I
> assumed that making it a fork would make that easier (I do
> occasionally synchronize, though I haven't done so for a while). Also,
> I assumed that if it ever happens that 4.0 gets official approval in
> some sense, then we will want a single converged test suite in which
> all tests are labelled with the version that they depend on.

Well, okay. If there really is a use case for merging between them, I
suppose a fork makes sense.

> I certainly hadn't realised this would stop people having forks of
> both. Does this just mean GitHub forks of both? Does it just mean that
> the two forks need to be under different GitHub ownership? It seems a
> very odd restriction.

It does. I’ll dig a little deeper when I have the chance.

In the meantime, I’ll abandon my proposal.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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Norm Tovey-Walsh
Saxonica