[tor-bugs] #30752 [Core Tor/Tor]: Practracker: usability improvements from May retrospective

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#30752: Practracker: usability improvements from May retrospective
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 Reporter:  nickm         |          Owner:  (none)
     Type:  enhancement   |         Status:  new
 Priority:  Medium        |      Milestone:  Tor: 0.4.2.x-final
Component:  Core Tor/Tor  |        Version:
 Severity:  Normal        |     Resolution:
 Keywords:                |  Actual Points:
Parent ID:                |         Points:
 Reviewer:                |        Sponsor:  Sponsor31-can
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Comment (by catalyst):

 Replying to [comment:1 teor]:
 > Practracker failures are a bad and confusing experience for new
 contributors (and researchers).
 I agree.
 >
 > Maybe it should be off by default? Or warn unless you set an env var
 that makes it fail?
 I think maybe the stricter options should only run on cron builds? As
 could the option that warns about exceptions that either could be lowered
 or deleted.

 I think we might still want to have a (small?) tolerance that practracker
 will use when run from `make check`. But maybe we also want reviewers to
 look at small regressions in practices that are within the tolerances but
 that show up as warnings in the pull requests?

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