On 5/29/14, 12:46 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: > In general it has always worked well after a compile; but, there's every > now and then one or another annoying regression, like recent Chromium > had some font issues or some random tabs crash some versions ago and ... > > If a test catches one of these, you can immediately report the problem; > if it is left untested, you'll have to do a debugging adventure instead.
This is one of my points: I don't remember a single chromium bug filed in Gentoo that would be caught by a test or that a failing test actually detected. By the way, I don't remember seeing many reports about font issues or tab crashes. Please make sure to file them when they occur, or just point me to them in case I somehow missed them. > While I don't run tests myself; the need for them is clear, for those > that aim for more production ready systems (eg. university network PCs). This seems too theoretical to me. I'd be fine with someone volunteering to maintain chromium's src_test in Gentoo. Unless we have such a person though, it seems to mostly take valuable focus away from bugs that definitely *do* affect our users, for no provable benefit for Gentoo. Paweł
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