> Rather than disable those tests, I'd much rather that we develop some > equivalent tests that we can add to our svn. Those particular tests > help us to verify some rather important Atom conformance features.
Agreed on both counts. I generated the patch yesterday morning when my workstation couldn't get any response back from verisignlabs. My immediate options were no build at all, a completely untested one, or a partially tested one. Further commentary: the patch doesn't disable the tests full stop -- it adds a profile which has to be specifically enabled on the command line (e.g. mvn -P no-online-tests clean install); without the special incantation, all tests will still be run. An alternate approach is to add the profile to one's local settings.xml. cheers, AC
