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To: "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@gmx.de>
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From: derick@php.net (Derick Rethans)

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On Mon, 9 Sep 2024, Christoph M. Becker wrote:

> On 09.09.2024 at 17:52, Derick Rethans wrote:
>=20
> > - Documentation on how to write tests
> >   (https://qa.php.net/write-test.php), and how to handle bug reports=20
> >   (https://qa.php.net/handling-bugs.php); which should be integrated=20
> >   in wherever we now have internals documentation =E2=80=94 please advi=
se=20
> >   where that should go.
>=20
> write-test.php is important, and <https://qa.php.net/phpt_details.php>=20
> maybe even more so.  As this is relevant for run-tests.php (I don't=20
> think there are still alternative test runners), php-src/docs seems to=20
> be a good home for it.

I agree, it should go there. All the "read me" type docs are MD, but the=20
actual documentation in=20
https://github.com/php/php-src/tree/master/docs/source is (for good=20
reasons) in RST. I think it makes sense for the PHPT documentation=20
(write-test.php and phpt_details) to be a single ".md" in docs/ =E2=80=94 o=
ne=20
explains the how and minimal how, whereas the latter is much more=20
detail).

> handling-bugs.php needs a thorough overhaul, or might be dropped=20
> altogether.  Some of the quickfix snippets might still be useful for=20
> the GH issue tracker, though.

I say we just drop it.

> > - A whole lot of "make test" reports, last really used in 2017 for=20
> >   PHP 7.1: https://qa.php.net/pftt.php =E2=80=94 none of the links to t=
he=20
> >   actual reports work any way. This also takes up nearly 70GB! of=20
> >   data. I recommend we just delete it all.
>=20
> The PFTT reports have always been pretty much useless.=20
> <https://qa.php.net/reports/run_tests.php> had some value, but=20
> apparently the SQLite DB had been corrupted again, so this can=20
> probably be removed as well.  I believe the functionality to send=20
> these reports has been dropped from run-tests.php quite a while ago=20
> anyway.

I tried to see what was going on there, but on the command line, the=20
8.2.18 file is fine (there is a file for every version). It's just an=20
empty database and the "reports" table doesn't exist.

I have now removed the empty files, so the report works.=20
But I wouldn't say it's useful.

cheers,
Derick
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