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introduce fixture scope and dependency based sort key for sorting tests #1269

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@RonnyPfannschmidt

this would reduce the collection sort logic to a "trivial" key function and povide exactly the metadata we need in xdist to do smarter placement of tests wrt setupstate

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  1. added
    type: enhancementnew feature or API change, should be merged into features branch
    plugin: xdistrelated to the xdist external plugin
    type: backward compatibilitymight present some backward compatibility issues which should be carefully noted in the changelog
    on Dec 17, 2015
  2. RonnyPfannschmidt commented on Jul 22, 2026

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    sunsetting this - will need a fresh idea after the #14758 work

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