[theme-reviewers] Theme Unit Tests on GitHub?

[Tammie Lister]

Well, whilst this is just my opinion, my own feelings are that the 
mailing list isn't always the most productive place. This really is the 
case when reporting issues or bugs or even enhancements to things.

As we grow as a team, we need to use resources that enable people easier 
to contribute and puts things back in the team's hands. I feel that this 
is one thing that can be done to put us on that path.

Thanks
Tammie

On 10/10/2014 16:07, Emil Uzelac 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 
> <mailto: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
>>     <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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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>     Tammie Lister
>
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