This is big, thanks everyone who pitched in and to Russell for getting the ball rolling!
Best Jan — > On 8. Nov 2018, at 17:23, Joan Touzet <woh...@apache.org> wrote: > > Resending since my first email didn't get through... > > In case you're not on notifications@, you may have missed that the > Elixir test suite has just landed on master. > > This is the heroic effort of many people to modernize our aging > JavaScript test suite by converting it to Elixir. The work is > ongoing, and if you know Elixir (or want to learn it), we'd love > your help! > > Replacing the JS test suite with an Elixir one is a key step in > our long term strategy to mitigate against our dependency on > SpiderMonkey 1.8.5. It also gives us a much richer environment in > which we can build and run tests. > > At the moment, this test suite is not run by the `make check` > command. You must run `make elixir` to run the Elixir test suite. > It's our intent to move `make check` over to the elixir tests > as soon as there is feature parity between the JS and Elixir > suites. > > If you do not have the dependencies installed that you need to > run Elixir, you can use the scripts in our apache/couchdb-ci > repository to install them for you. (Thanks, Ilya!) Clone > the repo, and run the `bin/install-elixir.sh` script > with root permissions. You must have `git`, `unzip` and `wget` > installed for this script to work. > > Thanks again to everyone who helped us get this far! > -Joan
