10-year-old unit test with future cookie expiry date breaks Servo browser CI system
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luu
Good intentions, undercooked execution. The bake is missing.
Summary
A developer shares a story about a unit test written 10 years ago for the Servo browser engine that included a cookie expiry date of April 18, 2026. At the time, Servo was only 3 years old and 10 years seemed like a distant future. Now that date has arrived, causing the CI (Continuous Integration) system to break, requiring a maintainer to merge a fix to update the test date.
Key quotes
· 3 pulled10 years ago, someone wrote a unit test for @[email protected] that included a cookie expiry date of April 18, 2026.
At that time Servo was only 3 years old and I'm sure 10 years in the future sounded like a long time!
Well, we're still here, and now our CI is broken until I can get another maintainer to merge https://github.com/servo/servo/pull/44341 .
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