Antoine Pitrou added the comment:

> The problem is confusing new contributors.
> 
> "Why wasn't this test run?"
> "Because you're not on OS X."
> "Why wasn't this run?"
> "I didn't have internet at the time."

Well, you're trying to fix a symptom, rather than the underlying cause.
And the concept of skipped tests is quite basic, it shouldn't be very
hard to grasp.

> It's noise that's unnecessary. People should be focusing on the
> coverage of the modules in the stdlib and not the tests themselves.
> Plus the process takes so darn long already I don't think it's worth
> the time to waste on covering the tests as well.

Whether or not the report includes the test files shouldn't impact the
test runtime.

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