[New, Outreachy] Introduction

Caleb Tillman· Oct 16, 2020, 18:15 UTC · lore

Hi,

I am an Outreachy applicant interested in open source development. 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.

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?

Thanks ahead of time for your help.

Caleb Tillman

Emily Shaffer· Oct 16, 2020, 18:31 UTC · re: Caleb Tillman · lore

Re: [New, Outreachy] Introduction

On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 11:16 AM Caleb Tillman <caleb.tillman@gmail.com> wrote:

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> 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