Hi,

Stevan Little wrote:
>> The idea was that t/force_todo can be deleted/cleared after a
>> release, so all tests which were only force_todoed were instantly
>> unTODOed.
> 
> Unfortunately that is not how it is being used though. It sticks
> around, and in some cases maybe even being used as a informal TODO
> list.

true.

> Although after some discussion with nothingmuch on IRC, I think I have
> come to good compromise.
> 
> We remove all the todo_ functions, and we add a named param "todo" to
> all our test functions. This would allow test level TODO-ing.
> 
> Then we add the force_todo() function, to allow for file level
> TODO-ing.
> 
> And we introduce some kind of global variable/env variable to do test
> suite wide TODO-ing.
> 
> This should give us enough granularity of control as well as make it
> simple to just "flip a switch" for release.

That sounds great! :)


--Ingo

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