Legacy Test Suite Failure and Linting Overhead in Open Source GUI Project
An open source GUI project (scratch-gui) has accumulated broken legacy tests that consistently fail, alongside a linting setup that consumes excessive RAM and catches only stylistic issues rather than meaningful bugs. Contributors are proposing a full test infrastructure replacement using Playwright across multiple OS/browser combinations, triggered only on pull requests rather than on a continuous schedule. The core tension is between maintaining contributor accessibility and enforcing meaningful quality gates on new features.
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