On 8 January 2015 at 19:07, jan i <[email protected]> wrote:

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> On 8 January 2015 at 19:04, Peter Kelly <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> > On 8 Jan 2015, at 11:52 pm, jan i <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> > I would have assumed that collecting test documents can never be bad. I
>> am
>> > not sure I can follow you with "to fork or to fetch".
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>> > I believe we need to documents in our test repo, so that developers
>> have no
>> > excuse for not running the tests. If I see dftest (and/or dfutil) you
>> can
>> > setup testcases, that reads the .docx document, generates html, and
>> checks
>> > it.
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>> I'm in favour of having test documents available in a repository, but I'd
>> just add a word of caution about the amount of data involved. I could see
>> the test suite potentially reaching several hundred megabytes, and there
>> are likely to be situations in which someone wants to just check out the
>> source code, not the whole repository. I think I remember running into this
>> problem with WebKit once.
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>> Perhaps we could have a separate corinthia-testdocs repository, and add
>> that as a git submodule in the main module so that we can ensure the
>> references from the source repository are to the appropriate commits in the
>> testdocs repository?
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> I like that idea very much...that way we have it available, but not
> disturbing our sources.
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> I will take a chat with infra, if there are any problems in doing that.
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We can have multiple repos, so I am all for a special test repo (I dont
understand the part about submodule but never mind).

Next step I quess is to discuss a layout and how we want to use it ?
(dennis@ agree on this, or do you see other discussion steps first ?)

rgds
jan i

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> Rgds
> jan i
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>> Currently all the data tests are in a text-based format and easily
>> compressed, but if we start adding binary files then space/bandwidth could
>> quickly start becoming an issue. Additionally, someone working on one
>> particular filter might not want to download 300+Mb of files from other
>> filters that their changes are not going to affect.
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>> —
>> Dr Peter M. Kelly
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