On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 08:36:57PM +0000, Guenter Milde wrote:
> Dear Scott,
> 
> On 2016-09-12, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
> 
> > OK let's both run the full tests after that and compare again to see if
> > we have any differences.
> 
> I can't run the full tests (no chinese, no japanese, no hebrew, ...; no disk
> space, no computer to run all night).

Ah good to know.

> > At least for the normal (e.g. not the suspicious or unreliable) tests we
> > are approaching zero. 
> 
> Which tests still fail?

I run the tests on current master and post back tomorrow.

> The idea is, to add failures that cannot be solved immediately to
> "invertedTests" (currently called "suspiciousTests"):
> 
> - If the cause is known, under the relevant sublabel.
>   (Normally, there is no need for new sublabels - at least not for just
>   one pattern.)
> 
> - If the cause is not known, under the sublabel TODO
>   (Adding the date and git-hash of the first occurence of the failure will
>   help in tracking down the cause later.)
> 
> This way, it should be easy to reach 0 failing reliable tests. 
> (The remaining task will be to clean up the TODO section every now and
> than...)

OK seems like a good plan.

> > Once we get there, I think it will be easy to
> > maintain.
> 
> A big step towards "easy to maintain" will be storing of LaTeX-log output in
> the test log. Currently, we always have to "hand-compile" (and in many cases
> edit the sources before) to find out what went wrong.

Yes that would be nice. I think we have a ticket for this somewhere. I
think this should be implemented more generally, for LyX export on the
command line.

Scott

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