On 1/22/13 11:53 AM, "Odin Hørthe Omdal" <odi...@opera.com> wrote:
>Hi! > > We just had a small discussion on webapps-testsuite [1] about the >possibility of moving the webapps tests. I was wrongly under the >impression that we had discussed this before (hey, confusion is not a >crime ;) ). We had such a discussion in testing a while back.[a] >Now that HTML has done the move, I think it is time for us to >look at it too. Ms2ger and Robin, which did most of the HTML testsuite >[2] move were happy to help [3]. > >Ms2ger proposed merging our repository with HTML at the same time and not > >necessarily having one repository for each group. I was already thinking > >such a move might be beneficial to do for webapps and webappsec, but it >might be even more simple to also have html testsuite in that merge. There are benefits to both approaches. I would be in favor of having a repository per spec (named tr_shortname-testsuite). This will make it a lot easier to securely give scoped commit rights to external contributors when the need arises. >Robin wrote an email describing what they did for the HTML move, some of >which should be relevant for our potential move too [4]. Of particular >interest the possibility for having tests in folders by section of the >spec, and making submissions pull requests. > > >I'm interested in such a move because it'll make our tests more visible, >and easier to contribute to. Just this weekend the Server Sent Events >spec got 6 pull requests from a GitHub user "Yaffle" [5]. Note that that > >particular repository will be moved into however our new test repository >structure will be, so it probably won't remain as a separate repository. More thoughts here: http://tobie.github.com/w3c-testing-plan/unofficial-w3c-testing-plan-201201 16.html#transition-test-repositories-to-github --tobie --- [a]: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-test-infra/2012JulSep/0027.html
