'I am using make check.'[1]

[Luis Villa <luis villa gmail com>]

So, I'm now tinderboxing with 'make check' turned on. 

This is good, in that we have more testing. Maintainers who do not
immediately start writing tests which run on make check are
poopieheads. :) [2]

This is bad, in that lots of things are failing right now. I plan to
file bugs on these as they come. But with a bit of help from xvfb-run,
not nearly as many as I expected.

Anyway, for the moment, consider this a heads up- if you add tests to
'make check' in a core gnome module or dep, you'll get them run
regularly for free! It's like a *second* pot of gold at the end of the
tinderbox rainbow.

Also, occasionally that pot of gold will be empty, like so:
http://www.whitemagic.com.au/images/products/ritualtools/cauldrons/cauldron-med.jpg

and may potentially even contain death, like so:
http://www.critcononline.com/images/cauldron%20of%20death.jpg

Presumably you will find out about this when you open up your
desktop-devel mail folder one day and out flys said empty and/or
deathly cauldron, sent perhaps by me:

http://marvelheros.free.fr/2/images/photo_adam-warlock.gif [3]

If you have tests that you expect will fail regularly for some reason,
please get in touch with me, so we can figure out what to do about
them, and you do not get cauldron-of-death-ized.

Thanks, and happy hacking of tests, and perhaps also of things that get tested-
Luis

[1] This was originally supposed to be a spartacus reference. Now i'm
thinking more Tiger Woods. Imagine the day when millions of children
line up to be on TV, saying 'I am Todd Berman.'

[2] A technical term.

[3] I look a lot like this, really. I swear. Especially since I'm
working out these days.