Great progress was made at Wineconf last year on getting our test suite closer to always passing on wine, but http://test.winehq.org/data/200801301937/#Wine shows that, according to the results collected from people who run programs/winetest on Wine, twelve DLLs' tests are currently failing. (Let alone the test failures on Windows!) http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9916 also talks about the fact that "make test" shows failures.
This situation greatly confuses new developers, who assume that any test failure is somehow their fault. And that's a reasonable assumption, let's make it so! It would make validating a new Wine development environment easy -- it'd be great to be able to say If it doesn't pass "make test" with no errors, something's wrong with the build environment.
What's the best way to encourage people to fix these problems? Should we designate some upcoming day, week, or month as a conformance test bug squishing party? Should we offer prizes (or at least notoriety) for the person who does the best job fixing conformance test suite bugs (as judged by Alexandre or his designate)? Or is a simple call to arms enough?