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On Sat, 31 May 2014 19:50:20 +0200 |
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""Paweł Hajdan, Jr."" <phajdan.jr@g.o> wrote: |
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> On 5/29/14, 12:46 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: |
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> > In general it has always worked well after a compile; but, there's |
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> > every now and then one or another annoying regression, like recent |
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> > Chromium had some font issues or some random tabs crash some |
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> > versions ago and ... |
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> > If a test catches one of these, you can immediately report the |
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> > problem; if it is left untested, you'll have to do a debugging |
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> > adventure instead. |
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> This is one of my points: I don't remember a single chromium bug filed |
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> in Gentoo that would be caught by a test or that a failing test |
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> actually detected. |
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Your point covers the lack of tests, or tests that are non-fatal; |
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however, it doesn't cover tests that are fatal, what if they fail? |
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> By the way, I don't remember seeing many reports about font issues or |
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> tab crashes. Please make sure to file them when they occur, or just |
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> point me to them in case I somehow missed them. |
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They usually go straight to upstream, though I've managed to somehow |
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fix it up; as for Gentoo, some people create forum threads about them. |
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(One was due to a library compiled with a less common flag, the other |
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due to fontconfig being a regression magnet; both fun to debug, the |
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former a test wolud've caught, the latter is due to the lack thereof) |
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> > While I don't run tests myself; the need for them is clear, for |
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> > those that aim for more production ready systems (eg. university |
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> > network PCs). |
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> This seems too theoretical to me. I'd be fine with someone |
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> volunteering to maintain chromium's src_test in Gentoo. Unless we |
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> have such a person though, it seems to mostly take valuable focus |
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> away from bugs that definitely *do* affect our users, for no provable |
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> benefit for Gentoo. |
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What about provable benefit for upstream? Does upstream /dev/null them? |
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With kind regards, |
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Tom Wijsman (TomWij) |
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Gentoo Developer |
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E-mail address : TomWij@g.o |
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