On 06/12/10 09:07, MZMcBride wrote:
The maintenance directory has maintenance tools in it. I don't think test suites fall within the category of "maintenance." Like large artwork files, these seem to be "development" tools that shouldn't be downloaded with every phase3 checkout.
On the second part, I disagree with you since development tools must be part of MediaWiki core for development purposes. I do agree though that the tests themselves should probably live in their own repository such as "phase3/tests". That is where Avar put them originally (or it was "phase3/t" which is "prove" default path).
This way you can easily ignore the "tests" directory but keep the actual test framework in "maintenance/tests/".