html_url,issue_url,id,node_id,user,created_at,updated_at,author_association,body,reactions,performed_via_github_app,issue https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/4648#issuecomment-738190759,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/4648,738190759,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDczODE5MDc1OQ==,3924836,2020-12-03T18:17:13Z,2020-12-03T18:17:13Z,MEMBER,"thanks for the ping @dcherian, i really like the idea! One other thing that often gets neglected in test suites is operating on remote data. I understand the need to avoid long-running tests and tests prone to network failures for PRs, but running these sorts of examples as a cron job could be very helpful for benchmarking and detecting issues. In intake-xarray we recently added tests against a local HTTP server and ""S3"" server: https://github.com/intake/intake-xarray/blob/master/intake_xarray/tests/test_remote.py Also added several simple tests requiring a network connection to public data (no auth required) that we run locally but not in CI currently: https://github.com/intake/intake-xarray/blob/master/intake_xarray/tests/test_network.py ","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,756425955