[webkit-dev] Process for making changes that affect layout test results

[Tony Payne]

All code I'm changing is inside of #if PLATFORM(CHROMIUM) blocks.

Thanks for the quick answer.

Tony

On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 2:03 PM, Ryosuke Niwa <rniwa at webkit.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 1:57 PM, Tony Payne <tpayne at chromium.org> wrote:
>
>> Given the recent discussion on test_expectations.txt, perhaps the answer
>> to my question is still up in the air.
>>
>> I'm working on a change that I expect to require changing the
>> expectations for about 75 tests on chromium win and linux.
>> https://trac.webkit.org/wiki/Rebaseline seems to only cover the
>> gardening work to rebaseline after the commit. I cannot find any wiki pages
>> that describe what the original author is expected to do when making visual
>> changes. Should I attempt to rebaseline manually? Should I mark the tests
>> as failing? Should I just check in and let the bots go red?
>>
>
> Just land the patch and rebaseline the tests. Please also coordinate with
> Chromium port's WebKit gardener when landing this patch.
>
> Also, does this patch only affect Chromium Windows and Linux, and not GTK,
> Qt, Windows, etc...? If the answer is no, and will affect other
> non-Chromium ports, then you're also responsible for rebaselining or
> coordinating with other ports to make sure you don't break tests on their
> ports as well.
>
> - Ryosuke
>
>
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