[theme-reviewers] Theme Unit Tests on GitHub?

[Emil Uzelac]

Accessible by Lance, Chip, me and few others. There's not much to see
anyway :)

On Friday, October 10, 2014, Ulrich Pogson <grapplerulrich at gmail.com> wrote:

> > N.B we track the history with page/post revisions :)
>
> @Emil is this information public?
>
> On 10 October 2014 17:11, Emil Uzelac <emil at uzelac.me
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','emil at uzelac.me');>> wrote:
>
>> N.B we track the history with page/post revisions :)
>>
>>
>> On Friday, October 10, 2014, Emil Uzelac <emil at uzelac.me
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','emil at uzelac.me');>> wrote:
>>
>>> Not really sure what would be the point of that to be honest. Anyone can
>>> freely obtain an official copy and ping us here with the changes.
>>>
>>> Creating a ticket is also not needed. We can handle all at one place,
>>> which is right here.
>>>
>>> And again this is @Lance's call :)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Friday, October 10, 2014, Tammie Lister <karmatosed at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>  I think having it (not forked) but accessible on GH could be good. We
>>>> don't have to fork just to put on GH and for the record, I never suggested
>>>> it was forked :)
>>>>
>>>> Regards
>>>> Tammie Lister
>>>>
>>>> On 10/10/2014 15:56, Emil Uzelac wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I don't think we need to fork the unit. WPTest is not official copy or
>>>> the same as ours. If you wish to improve, please by all means. Just ping me
>>>> and I will go over the changes and make the update.
>>>>
>>>>  Unless @Lance thinks that this is ok to do, but I doubt that because
>>>> someone tried few times already.
>>>>
>>>> On Friday, October 10, 2014, Gary Jones <gary at gamajo.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hey,
>>>>>
>>>>>  tl;dr:
>>>>> 1. Could the theme unit tests file be put on public repo on GitHub?
>>>>> 2. Anyone want to help tackle
>>>>> https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/22279 ?
>>>>>
>>>>>  Posting after Tammie suggested I do.
>>>>>
>>>>>  I'd like to see The Theme Unit Tests file on GitHub for the
>>>>> following reasons:
>>>>>
>>>>>  * Access to commit history to see what exactly has changed version to
>>>>> version. Currently, us mere mortals can only see when it was updated - the
>>>>> information about what was not updated is not available (or not easy to
>>>>> find) as it's part of Automattic's SVN repo.
>>>>>  * Easier to see already-reported bugs and enhancements, rather than
>>>>> wading through the mailing list archives.
>>>>>
>>>>>  There's a fork already on GH (https://github.com/manovotny/wptest)
>>>>> which claims to have added extra edge cases. But I've currently got no idea
>>>>> which cases these are, and why they weren't added to the original Tests
>>>>> file. Michael also believes that further cases and fixes may have been
>>>>> added to the official Tests since the fork that aren't in his, so now we
>>>>> may have two sets of tests, mostly but not completely duplicated.
>>>>>
>>>>> If the official Tests were on GH, and open to pull requests on those
>>>>> edge cases and other issues, then I'd hope that wptest could be
>>>>> discontinued to just leave a single more-complete test suite that everyone
>>>>> can benefit from.
>>>>>
>>>>> The wptest file has fixed things like
>>>>> https://github.com/manovotny/wptest/issues/27 (s/Isaac Newton/Albert
>>>>> Einstein) and https://github.com/manovotny/wptest/issues/24
>>>>> (s/Horizontal/Vertical on vertical featured image alt text) which the
>>>>> official Tests are still bugged with. Both tests are bugged with missing
>>>>> markup formatting tests for some elements,
>>>>> https://github.com/manovotny/wptest/issues/37 (s/Headers/Headings)
>>>>> and a side-effect of https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/29621
>>>>> (post titles stripped of markup on export).
>>>>>
>>>>> One of the things that would make contributions *considerably* easier
>>>>> would be to get https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/22279 (mixed
>>>>> line endings for XML vs cdata in export) fixed. That would enable direct
>>>>> editing of the file without breaking line-endings, without having to set up
>>>>> a clean WP install, import, amend and export. If anyone has experience of
>>>>> the Exporter and could help on this, then I would personally be grateful,
>>>>> as would potential GitHub contributors :-)
>>>>>
>>>>>  Gary
>>>>>
>>>>>   --
>>>>> Gary Jones
>>>>> Web Developer, Gamajo Tech
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>> --
>>>> Thanks
>>>> Tammie Lister
>>>>
>>>>
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