Re: cvs: php-src(PHP_5_3) /ext/mysql/testsmysql_connect.phpt

Sorry, I've seen these tests failing for a long time but I just didn't want to bother you guys.. :) But I'll make it my sole purpose in life to make sure you know about these from now on. Your wish is my law.. ;) --Jani On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 23:29 +0100, Ulf Wendel wrote: > Nuno Lopes schrieb: > > The same for the gcov machine: > > > > http://gcov.php.net/viewer.php?version=PHP_5_3&func=tests > > Nuno > > Thanks for the hint! > > Every problem report is welcome. It would not be honest to promise > immediate fixes nor to promise that my spontanous reaction will always > be "great hint" and not a "oh, no - a bug, how boring, go away", but at > the end of the day its nothing but "THANKS!". > > Andrey and I had to focus on other issues during the last weeks > (Connector C++ and PDO testing). Looks like we can spend a few days on > ext/mysql, ext/mysqli and mysqlnd right now. Strike! > > Another good news is that, from what I know, Jim Winstead will work on > libmysql in the near future. Why is this good news? Well, not only is > Jim a fantastic developer but libmysql issues will no longer bounce back > for fixing to Andrey, who has been a short resource in the past. > > Looks like we found out today why the following tests fail with mysqlnd > (and fixed them internally): > mysqli_stmt_affected_rows.phpt > mysqli_debug_mysqlnd_control_string.phpt > mysqli_debug_control_string.phpt > mysqli_debug_append.phpt > mysqli_connect_oo_defaults.phpt > > So, what's my feeling about how critical the remaining test failures > are? Looks like 50% of the test failures are caused by wrong (not > portable) tests (my fault). Andrey has fixed the only severe mysqlnd bug > I did know (since months) yesterday (pconnect causing a crash). All > other issues I know about are very minor issues. > > We have committed tests even if they fail and we won't fix them for > weeks/months. Is that OK? Some QA people prefer having the tests in the > bug system only until the issue gets fixed in order to not get > distracted by tests which are known to fail. > > Once again: please, please continue poking us (using mail, blogs, > whatever you want!) as you did in the past and do now. If we don't know > what's wrong, we can't listen and try to help. > > Ulf > > PS: We have increased ext/mysql and ext/mysqli tests loc by 500% during > the last year - no surprise we see more tests failing. For example, BIT > never worked fine. Now one test "documents" that BIT doesn't work > perfect. Has our quality slipped? The test helped us to improve on small > BIT values already but its still failing and I'm against hiding the test > failures. -- Patches/Donations: http://pecl.php.net/~jani/