Dealing with disabled tests

[pnkfelix]

Meeting proposal info

• Title: dealing with disabled tests
• Type: technical

Summary

We sometimes disable tests because some other component we don't control (e.g. LLVM) is causing them to fail; see e.g. rust-lang/rust#99853

But we should put structures/protocols in place to ensure that such tests are revisited in the future, rather than just lying unaddressed.

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[apiraino]

Also mention of rust-lang/rust#88520 as another example (iiuc the context of that issue)

[lqd]

Is the following in scope for that meeting: is it possible to ensure these optional components' tests are indeed executed on CI ? (Or is that more of a t-infra concern). I'm thinking of the needs-lld tests in particular, that we currently can run locally but not on CI.