[codesprints] One codesprint activity for IETF 115

Robert Sparks <rjsparks@nostrum.com> Thu, 13 October 2022 18:18 UTC

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Subject: [codesprints] One codesprint activity for IETF 115
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Codesprinters -

One of the things that is causing us a great deal of frustration are 
tests that intermittently fail because of the quality of the randomly 
generated test data.

In some cases, the failures are _real bugs_ that are not yet affecting 
us in production but could, and should be addressed. But most are just 
issues with the test data generation itself.

We'd like to have several people focus on clearing these away before or 
during the sprint at IETF 115.

To start with, look at 
https://github.com/ietf-tools/datatracker/issues/4572 and 
https://github.com/ietf-tools/datatracker/issues/3231

RjS