Re: [PATCH v7 2/7] tests: paint known breakages in yellow

On 12/21/2012 04:46 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:

[SNIP]

The only thing the additional knowledge adds seems to be to give
rationale for the old choice of "bold green"---it was not chosen
from thin-air but can be viewed as following the automake/autotest
scheme, and other systems cannot agree on what color to pick for
this purpose.

I do not see a need to justify why we chose differently from
automake/autotest; we could say something like:

    Yellow seems a more appropriate color than bold green when
    considering the universal traffic lights coloring scheme, where
    green conveys the impression that everything's OK, and amber that
    something's not quite right.  This is in line with what 'prove'
    uses, but different from 'automake/autotest' do.

but we are not in the business of choosing which is more correct
between prove and automake/autotest, and I do not see how it adds
much value to tell readers that color choices are not universally
agreed upon across various test software suites---that's kind of
known, isn't it?

So...

That is fine with me, I just pointed it out because I suspected not
everybody was aware of all these details.  If you decide they don't
matter, it's perfectly OK -- but at least now it's an informed
choice ;-)

Thanks,
  Stefano