add sterner warning about test case problems

note error in dictionary comparison that raises exception

pep-0200.txt

@@ -74,6 +74,26 @@ Guidelines for submitting patches and making changes
     an Open Source license.  Do not contribute code if it can't be
     released this way.
 
+Failing test cases need to get fixed
+
+    We need to resolve errors in the regression test suite quickly.
+    Changes should not be committed to the CVS tree unless the
+    regression test runs cleanly with the changes applied.  If it
+    fails, there may be bugs lurking in the code.  (There may be bugs
+    anyway, but that's another matter.)  If the test cases are known
+    to fail, they serve no useful purpose.
+
+    The current test suite runs correctly on my Linux box (July 26).
+    Heard reports that test_fork1 fails on some Linux boxes and that
+    test_winreg and test_winreg32 fail on Windows.
+
+Open items -- should be done/fixed
+
+    Decoding errors when comparing strings.  There is a dictionary bug
+    that prevents objects from being accessible when an exception is
+    raised during hashing or comparison.
+
+
 Accepted and completed