From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/21592 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: test suite in the garden Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 00:12:14 +0200 Message-ID: <42E563BE.90509@wxs.nl> References: <20050725185214.CC7871A8D6@mendoza.math.indiana.edu> <6faad9f0050725130439c079b2@mail.gmail.com> <3140B5FA-6F65-47E1-AAA0-BD8492696241@fiee.net> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1122329545 28873 80.91.229.2 (25 Jul 2005 22:12:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 22:12:25 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Tue Jul 26 00:12:17 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DxBAq-00034f-GC for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 00:11:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 381BD12825; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 00:11:48 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 08825-02-10; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 00:11:42 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id F22F812815; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 00:11:41 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DF0E12815 for ; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 00:11:40 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 08825-02-9 for ; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 00:11:39 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mailrelay01.solcon.nl (maillb.solcon.nl [212.45.32.200]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A3F41280F for ; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 00:11:39 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from server-1.pragma-net.nl (dsl-212-84-128-085.solcon.nl [212.84.128.85]) by mailrelay01.solcon.nl (8.12.11/SQL-8.12.11-5/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j6PMBX17031966 for ; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 00:11:33 +0200 Original-Received: by server-1.pragma-net.nl (Postfix, from userid 65534) id 240B824C70; Mon, 25 Jul 2005 23:27:05 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.52] (unknown [10.100.1.52]) by server-1.pragma-net.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A42EA24C6B for ; Mon, 25 Jul 2005 21:27:03 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <3140B5FA-6F65-47E1-AAA0-BD8492696241@fiee.net> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.86.1/991/Mon Jul 25 10:55:11 2005 on mailrelay01 X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on smtp.ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:21592 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:21592 Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: > Am 2005-07-25 um 22:04 schrieb Mojca Miklavec: > >> It is perhaps a lot of work included, but extending the >> contextgarden.net in such a way that users could provide test cases >> which would be typeset with different ConTeXt versions and PNGs >> compared afterwards ... could make it easier to discover any broken >> functionality. > > > Oh, another quest for our magic Patrick! ;-) > > Let me extend the suggestion, for we miss a ConTeXt test suite for a > long time now: > > - users send test cases > - test cases get typeset with the actual ConTeXt and converted to PNG > (like inline samples) > - user "votes" if it looks right, if not adds comment > - test case gets saved, including PNG, ConTeXt version and vote/comments > - at next update, all test cases get typeset again, and users can > "vote" if it looks still ok or at least the same (perhaps it would be > possible to check automatically if the bitmaps are exactly identical) > > This does work only for max. 1 page samples, and I don't know if it's > within the abilities of our wizard(s)... > And I guess different users have different opinions what looks > "right", but we could check if something changed. i'd say, go ahead ... you can use the wiki as place to collect those things Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------