I believe this to be a good change and agree with it. However, normally such changes should be discussed in the relevant issue queue before being made. A note to this list telling people about the discussion early on is a good courtesy. --Larry Garfield On 1/11/11 5:59 AM, Steven Jones wrote:
Hello Drupal developers,
With automated testing, Drupal 7 has had the policy that a failing test would be a sufficient condition for the related issue to be marked as 'critical'. This was according to the handbook page that describes the meaning of the issue priorities: http://drupal.org/node/45111
However, this was not true. Drupal 7 was released with several tests that failed, but only in the secondary testing environments notably: PostgreSQL and SQLite on Linux. They passed in the primary testing environment of MySQL + Linux. I think that this is fair, but a failing test should still be given a higher priority that other issues, so I've updated the aforementioned handbook page so that failing tests in the secondary environments are 'Major' issues.
I've basically changed this because it makes sense to me, and because changes to the handbook are really easy to revert. Was this the right change to make?
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