On Sun, Nov 01, 2015 at 10:36:17PM +0100, Kornel Benko wrote: > Am Sonntag, 1. November 2015 um 21:27:11, schrieb Guenter Milde > <mi...@users.sf.net>
> > Could we introduce a new status "suspended" - meaning just skip the test > > until a known bug is solved as we know the result is insignificant until > > then? As Kornel mentions, we have "ignoredTests" for this. > > This way, known problems will not mask new problems. I agree with this goal. The current situation is a problem because like you say it might mask new problems. I agree with Kornel that ignored tests are not the solution. But I think that inverting the tests might be a temporary solution. The only way to get clean working tests would be to rever the commits and I don't think that is the right action for this situation. > We already have such (specified in file "ignoredTests"). But as this tests > are never executed, > nobody cares for them anymore. > The tests here are such, that we know, we never resolve them. > Example: > We write a lyx file for odt/word/whatever output only. There is sense to > expect > valid latex. I agree. We should not use ignored tests for temporary issues. Once we put something in ignoredTests chances are strong that we will forget about them for a long time. Scott
