Re: [Tails-dev] Releasing automated tests

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Hi,

sajolida wrote (22 Oct 2015 12:19:04 GMT) :
>>> FTR I dislike the idea of blacklisting such branches based on their
>>> name. I'm not going to debate it here [...]


> The prefixes doc/ and web/ are used loosely to differentiate work on the
> "documentation" (/doc /support) and the "website" in general (structure,
> stuff not in /doc, etc.) but the difference is not strict.


Indeed. I've also seen the "contrib/", "about/" and "faq/" prefixes
being used. Branch naming is quite arbitrary, and sometimes creative,
so yay, instead of relying on a hard-coded list of prefixes:

> I also don't think they should be tested. Maybe you could exclude them
> from testing by their diff to their base branch. If all the diff is
> under wiki/src then don't test that branch.


I like the idea!

Cheers,
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intrigeri