fleettest.py builds the committed HEAD of a checkout on a fleet of remote machines over ssh and runs the test suite under both the stdio-pipe and --use-tcp transports in parallel, reporting only the unexpected results. Each target mirrors a .github/workflows/*.yml job: its configure flags, and the RSYNC_EXPECT_SKIPPED list parsed from the workflow.
The fleet is described by a JSON file (testsuite/fleettest.json, git-ignored); fleettest.json.example is a worked template. Use --fleet to point at another config and --repo to build a tree other than the current directory.
A target with nonroot:true reruns, as the unprivileged ssh user, the tests that declare a module-level fleet_nonroot=True (here ownership-depth and daemon). The set lives in the test files, so new privilege-sensitive tests join the non-root pass with no fleet-config change.
Also rename testsuite/README.testsuite to README.md and rewrite it as markdown documenting the current testsuite: runtests.py, the make check/check29/check30/installcheck/coverage targets, the result/exit-code conventions, and fleettest.py.