[buddypress-trac] [BuddyPress Trac] #5910: travis-ci tests fail on PHP 5.2

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#5910: travis-ci tests fail on PHP 5.2
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 Reporter:  boonebgorges  |      Owner:
     Type:  defect (bug)  |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal        |  Milestone:  2.2
Component:  Unit Tests    |    Version:  2.1
 Severity:  normal        |   Keywords:  has-patch 2nd-opinion
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 wordpress.org recently began forcing SSL for all requests. This includes
 buddypress.trac.wordpress.org requests. Our unit test suite queries
 buddypress.trac.wordpress.org to query for open tickets, in order to skip
 tickets associated with those open tickets. However, the change on
 wordpress.org means that this query fails when the requesting server does
 not support SSL; as a result, no open tickets are identified, and all
 tests are run, including those that are known to fail. This causes
 particular problems on travis-ci: we run our builds against PHP 5.2, but
 the travis-ci build of PHP 5.2 does not have openssl http://docs.travis-
 ci.com/user/languages/php/#PHP-installation

 We have three options:

 1. Do nothing and continue to let our builds fail on travis-ci
 2. Stop running builds against PHP 5.2
 3. Set up a non-SSL mirror where an open ticket cache can be fetched by
 builds that don't have access to SSL

 All of these options are pretty lame, but IMO number 3 is the best:
 travis-ci, and in particular the 5.2 builds, are valuable enough that we
 should make an attempt to save them.

 I've written a small script that serves as a mirror for BP open tickets:
 http://hardg.com/bp-open-tickets/query (warning - CSV download). Results
 are cached for 15 minutes. Here is the necessary patch for BP:
 https://github.com/boonebgorges/BuddyPress/commit/f4430bbb8562ddd625514e93bb707f061d5533eb
 Obviously, it is not terribly elegant to store this on my own server, but
 I think it's our best option (until travis-ci fixes PHP 5.2, or we stop
 supporting it, or pigs fly).

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