Re: Announce re-factor all current xfstests patches request

[Ben Myers <bpm@xxxxxxx>]

Hey,

On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 01:42:17PM -0700, Zach Brown wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 03:05:12PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> > What do you think about renaming the existing tests from NNN to
> > NNN-descriptive-name?  That way it will be easier for people who are
> > trying to track regressions, since they can easily map from the new
> > more descriptive name to the old test number for comparison purposes
> > (i.e., to see whether a failure is a regression or not, etc.)
> 
> It does seem like a good idea to help people map from descriptive names
> to their previous numeric file names.
> 
> But do we want to bake it in to the file names forevermore?  Would it be
> good enough to start the old tests with something like
> 
> _was_test_nr 45
> 
> that spits out the old test number in the log?
> 
> Just thinking out loud over here.

Maybe a text file containing the mapping would be sufficient.  It's not as if
it's going to grow.

-Ben