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With SD reports disabled for Charcoal Test, that should reduce the message volume on chat.SE by about 26%. Being not having SD post the feedback messages from MS should reduce...

The closure of this issue was automated by GitHub as a result of my saying "partially resolve #[issue number]" in the commit. Apparently, it's just looking for "resolve #[issue number]"...

Another potentially related CI failure: https://app.circleci.com/pipelines/github/Charcoal-SE/SmokeDetector/71161/workflows/ccff8a1d-3aa6-46b2-9ed0-0438f1e95a75/jobs/109367 ``` Failed: Privileged user 22202197 does not have a corresponding entry in users.yml test/test_chatcommunicate.py:45: Failed =========================== short test summary info ============================ FAILED test/test_chatcommunicate.py::test_validate_yaml -...

There have been multiple additional failures in test/test_chatcommunicate.py (e.g. [1](https://app.circleci.com/pipelines/github/Charcoal-SE/SmokeDetector/71474/workflows/d78ade75-55a6-46d6-995a-6e1879f15aa7/jobs/109533), [2](https://app.circleci.com/pipelines/github/Charcoal-SE/SmokeDetector/71552/workflows/d859277b-6366-45ba-b902-ffa40fe64a40/jobs/109570), [3](https://app.circleci.com/pipelines/github/Charcoal-SE/SmokeDetector/71523/workflows/751af317-a498-4806-aa9a-77b07bb843ca/jobs/109557)). While this is an annoyance wrt. having the CI tests fail, it does reveal a real issue, which...

For the issue you mention in the initial comment here when running the tests locally, that appears to be that the `pytest-xdist` package is not being applied during the tests....

For the failure which is ``` FAILED test/test_chatcommunicate.py::test_validate_yaml - Failed: Privileged user 22202197 does not have a corresponding entry in users.yml ``` I added some extra printing, both of the...

I've added `cat`ing the two files, users.yml and test/data_test_spamhandling.txt to the CircleCI tests just prior to executing `pytest`. That should at least tell us what's on the disk at that...

It looks like [this CircleCI test run](https://app.circleci.com/pipelines/github/Charcoal-SE/SmokeDetector/72683/workflows/b05ba690-2b68-4275-89eb-4c4ea7339e91/jobs/110149) confirms that the contents of the users.yml file which are read in the `test/test_chatcommunicate.py::test_validate_yaml()` test are different than what was on the disk...

As to the more prevalent sporadic errors (at least 3 today: [1](https://app.circleci.com/pipelines/github/Charcoal-SE/SmokeDetector/73163/workflows/9d83935a-05ce-409d-8589-7cf9d1d4e205/jobs/110390), [2](https://app.circleci.com/pipelines/github/Charcoal-SE/SmokeDetector/73170/workflows/d454ec29-2470-4782-928d-58d1ab080de1/jobs/110393), [3](https://app.circleci.com/pipelines/github/Charcoal-SE/SmokeDetector/73174/workflows/017390eb-3f0e-4c8e-918b-f12be9767b20/jobs/110395): ``` FAILED test/test_chatcommunicate.py::test_validate_yaml - Failed: Privileged user 22202197 does not have a corresponding entry in users.yml...

During the long MS downtime around 2021-11-25, I implemented a queue to store data which was intended to be sent to MS, but wasn't actually sent, either due to MS...