ctests: log a waste

[features.git] / development / autotests / ctests-costs-benefits.txt

diff --git a/development/autotests/ctests-costs-benefits.txt b/development/autotests/ctests-costs-benefits.txt
index c7b2e3c1b14e21118a9db2a7a74c632fd153bf5c..b4fb0e8b507688e1ce9aa1ac588d371b2799d318 100644 (file)
--- a/development/autotests/ctests-costs-benefits.txt
+++ b/development/autotests/ctests-costs-benefits.txt
@@ -15,11 +15,29 @@ Below we can try to keep a log of which bugs are found with which ctests. This
 way we can see which tests are the most useful. It is difficult to objectively
 differentiate between minor bugs and important bugs.
 
+The "Benefit" row gives the amount of days in-between when an issue is found
+because of the ctests and when an issue is reported by someone not using the
+ctests.
+
+The "ctest" row gives a ctest pattern for the tests that were affected by the
+regression.
+
 Examples where convergence tests took time and annoyance to figure out that
 they were actually "false positives" (i.e., no bug that is worth the time or
 complexity to fix):
 
-https://www.mail-archive.com/search?l=mid&q=20210125200655.e27xaaoy2belyxhw%40tallinn
+Report : https://www.mail-archive.com/search?l=mid&q=20210125200655.e27xaaoy2belyxhw%40tallinn
+Report : https://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org/msg218248.html
+
+Testing compilation after lyx2lyx roundtrip was not helpful in this case:
+report : https://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org/msg218232.html
+ctests : de/UserGuide_lyx(22|23)
+
+
+Examples where an upstream issue was reported and ended up wasting time:
+
+Report : https://github.com/latex3/latex2e/issues/836#issuecomment-1159826566
+ctests : export/templates/Obsolete/.*American_Geophysical_Union.*_(lyx22|lyx23|pdf|dvi).*
 
 
 Examples where bugs were fixed (more quickly) because of ctests:
@@ -49,8 +67,62 @@ Fix    : 39a9e370
 Report : https://www.mail-archive.com/search?l=mid&q=20210528001413.56phju7dvfn4dexs%40tallinn
 Fix    : ffa6a724
 
+Report : https://www.mail-archive.com/search?l=mid&q=20210529174524.idnmt5w4tvhuvyy6%40tallinn
+Note1  : We are still not sure what to do regarding how to make it more user-friendly
+         for users to realize that "-dALLOWPSTRANSPARENCY" is needed for the ps2pdf converter.
+Benefit: 14 days (https://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/12303)
+
+Report : https://www.mail-archive.com/search?l=mid&q=20211205190238.edrtqmg3fkdr7gbo%40poole
+Fix    : 489bf46a, e3489d54
+
+Report : https://www.mail-archive.com/search?l=mid&q=20220205184128.4clckanaufwmx5z4%40gary
+Fix    : d66c27de
+Report : https://www.mail-archive.com/search?l=mid&q=20220206142559.rpgwki7wruhtasxp%40gary
+Fix    : f71f71d0
+
+Report : https://www.mail-archive.com/search?l=mid&q=20220310131706.qdthdjblfpme2wew%40gary
+Fix    : dc502c82
+ctests : examples/Welcome_pdf2
+
+report : https://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org/msg218232.html
+Fix    : b8502a3e, e316e21a
+ctests : de/UserGuide_lyx(16|20|21)
+
+
+
 
 Examples where upstream (e.g., LaTeX packages) bugs were fixed (more quickly)
 because of ctests:
 
 Fix    : https://github.com/nrnrnr/noweb/pull/12#event-4892099481
+
+Report : (private message to Jürgen: Message-ID:<20211205192054.zbxij5butj3wdyvf@poole>)
+Fix    : some of the polyglossia commits in the range 1c36dcdc^...bf69288c
+Benefit: Not clear. The regressions were in the development version so they
+         could have easily been caught before release.
+
+Report : https://www.mail-archive.com/search?l=mid&q=20211207200100.o27ojaftehrjfcza%40poole
+Fix    : 2eaf30c5
+
+
+Report : (private message to Jürgen: LyXMessage-ID:<20220216020703.la2fd5gu7yz7y7dc@gary>)
+Fix    : https://github.com/reutenauer/polyglossia/commit/c7489ebaf8c66a7e4fe2529de7068ebb79c68812
+Benefit: Not clear. The regressions were in the development version so they
+         could have easily been caught before release.
+ctests : export/export/lyx2lyx/revert-languages-polyglossia-primary_lyx22
+
+
+Report : https://github.com/latex3/latex2e/issues/836
+Fix    : https://github.com/latex3/latex2e/commit/878a4715df024fc3425d2bfd5d3d138b9395c178
+ctests : doc/EmbeddedObjects
+
+
+Report : https://github.com/gsilano/EuropeCV/issues/29
+Fix    : none yet
+ctests : Modern_CV
+
+
+Report : https://github.com/schlcht/microtype/issues/21
+         upstream: https://github.com/latex3/latex2e/issues/880
+Fix    : none yet
+ctests : export/templates/Articles/Hebrew_Article_.*(dvi|pdf|pdf2|pdf3)