[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 82627] Mac should not use a text_expectations file until it is ready to fully move over to it

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=82627





--- Comment #2 from Eric Seidel <eric at webkit.org>  2012-03-29 11:03:49 PST ---
I certainly have no complaints about removing it.  It was originally there to handle flaky-tests during the NRWT transition.  Those have long since been handled.

It looks like it's mostly been populated by Chromium folks submitting patches who are used to test_expectations handling in Chromium and probably don't even know what a Skipped list is.

Obviously there are several things which you can do in test_expectations which you can't in Skipped, including:
- Continue to run a test, yet expect it to fail (common when you write a patch from windows, but don't have Mac baselines, for example)
- Mark a test as flaky (useful for keeping the bots green)

But the folks who work on the Mac port should set it up however they would like things set up.  Dirk is a good person to ask about how you'd go about disabling it if that is the desire.

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