Document WPT's system requirements

jugglinmike commented 6 years ago

Some of WPT's more exciting tests require technical resources that may exceed the capacity available to some users. Recent examples:

web-platform-tests/wpt gh-7598: Consistently use one viewport size for reftests (viewport size)
web-platform-tests/wpt gh-12763: storage size limitations? (disk)
web-platform-tests/wpt gh-12459: [wptserve] Limit number of additional subdomains (DNS entries)
web-platform-tests/results-collection gh-616: Timeouts in Firefox (memory)

Firm requirements will help users set expectations about the hardware they'll need to be successful. It will also help test authors make test design decisions.

There's some subjectivity here, and there currently doesn't seem to be any one person who can authoritatively declare that (for example), you need 4 gigabytes of free disk space to run WPT. We're actively designing a more structured governance, though, and I'm hopeful this is something that body will be able to address.

/cc @wanderview

mdittmer commented 5 years ago

Friendly ecosystem infra rotation ping

If this is priority:roadmap should it have an assignee?

jugglinmike commented 5 years ago

I can't speak to the policy around that label, but difficulty designating an owner is part of the problem. I'm still optimistic that the new project governance (which is currently under review) will be able to help out.

foolip commented 5 years ago

@jugglinmike this came up in triage today, is this among the issues to be fixed in your current work?

jugglinmike commented 5 years ago

@foolip no, it is not.

foolip commented 5 years ago

Backlog it is :)

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