From: Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com>
To: Caleb Tillman <caleb.tillman@gmail.com>
Cc: Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [New, Outreachy] Introduction
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2020 11:31:57 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJoAoZkQkemd4Zp7Qmnn7f++KjAa8_h=VgMLNMUTNvckNLG85w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAES5DXRFu7yaM3TggA7p9Yot-E2O1SmpmT+B6ddZmHgRmCmuNw@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 11:16 AM Caleb Tillman <caleb.tillman@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am an Outreachy applicant interested in open source development.
Welcome!
> I
> have started reading through docs for this project, and noticed that
> many of the tests in t/ that are marked as expected to succeed are
> failing. Is this normal and to be expected, or is there I chance I
> messed something up in the build phase.
That shouldn't happen. It's possible you're missing a dependency or
something - if you post a paste link to some of the test failures in
IRC I'm sure we can help you figure out what's going on.
>
> Also, for my microproject I was considering replacing some of the
> calls to 'test' in t/ with their debug-friendly helper functions.
> There seem to still be a lot of files that would qualify. Is this
> particular microproject still desired?
Yes, that is still desired! Looking forward to the patch(es).
- Emily
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