+
+\begin_inset Foot
+status collapsed
+
+\begin_layout Plain Layout
+This rule is due to revision.
+
+\end_layout
+
+\begin_layout Plain Layout
+There is an objection from the documentation maintainer that working on
+ the documentation must not be complicated by having to consider non-standard
+ exports.
+\end_layout
+
+\begin_layout Itemize
+successful compiling/testing an edited documentation file with pdflatex
+ suffices to ensure it can be commited, not tests with other exports are
+ required.
+\end_layout
+
+\begin_layout Plain Layout
+If sudden failures with other exports due to “half-tested” documentation
+ updates are a problem for the test maintainer, the test suite should use
+ copies that are
+\end_layout
+
+\begin_layout Itemize
+copied to a cache dir (autotests/samples/doc/, say) but not changed,
+\end_layout
+
+\begin_layout Itemize
+updated regularely (but on a time chosen by the test suite maintainer) from
+ the originals in lib/doc/
+\end_layout
+
+\begin_layout Plain Layout
+This way,
+\end_layout
+
+\begin_layout Itemize
+no test will fail due to ongoing work on documentation,
+\end_layout
+
+\begin_layout Itemize
+the documentation is still tested in full (with some delay),
+\end_layout
+
+\begin_layout Itemize
+failures with non-default export can be examined and handled accordingly
+ in one run with the cache update,
+\end_layout
+
+\begin_layout Itemize
+“interesting failures” (like the nested-language+polyglossia problem in
+ es/Customization can be separated and moved into dedicated test samples.
+\end_layout
+
+\end_inset
+
+