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Re: [New, Outreachy] Introduction

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Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com>
Date
Oct 16, 2020, 18:31 UTC
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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!
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> 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.

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> 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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  1. Caleb TillmanOct 16, 2020
  2. Emily ShafferOct 16, 2020

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