[theme-reviewers] Theme Unit Tests on GitHub?

[Ulrich Pogson]

> 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> wrote:

> N.B we track the history with page/post revisions :)
>
>
> On Friday, October 10, 2014, Emil Uzelac <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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