# [New, Outreachy] Introduction

2 messages from 2020-10-16 to 2020-10-16. Participants: Caleb Tillman, Emily Shaffer.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/54441

## Caleb Tillman, 2020-10-16 18:15

Subject: [New, Outreachy] Introduction
Message-ID: <CAES5DXRFu7yaM3TggA7p9Yot-E2O1SmpmT+B6ddZmHgRmCmuNw@mail.gmail.com>
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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

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## Emily Shaffer, 2020-10-16 18:31

Subject: Re: [New, Outreachy] Introduction
Message-ID: <CAJoAoZkQkemd4Zp7Qmnn7f++KjAa8_h=VgMLNMUTNvckNLG85w@mail.gmail.com>
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In-Reply-To: <CAES5DXRFu7yaM3TggA7p9Yot-E2O1SmpmT+B6ddZmHgRmCmuNw@mail.gmail.com>

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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!

> 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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