several iotools tests are failing

[kandersolar]

Just documenting some test failures that popped up on #1216:

SRML

test_srml.py takes a long time to run, and eventually fails, because it repeatedly attempts and to connect to the remote server but the connection attempts time out:
TimeoutError: [WinError 10060] A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond.

Maybe a temporary server issue, or maybe we need to update a URL or something, I did not check. I guess the @pytest.mark.flaky decorator on those tests makes them take long enough to time out the CI entirely.

PVGIS

test_pvgis.py fails because the copyright metadata string changed from 'PVGIS (c) European Communities' to 'PVGIS (c) European Union', should be an easy fix

[cwhanse]

So CI jobs are going to time out until the test_srml issue is fixed?

[kandersolar]

So CI jobs are going to time out until the test_srml issue is fixed?

I think so, or at least the conda_linux ones anyway. It seems like the entire solardat UOSRML website is down. Should we temporarily replace the flaky mark with xfail on those tests?

[cwhanse]

I'll email Frank and ask if it's temporary or permanent. @wholmgren this issue affects the Arbiter

[wholmgren]

One idea for live API tests is to only run them in scheduled nightly tests so they don't spoil PRs.