On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 11:48 AM, Evan Martin <[email protected]> wrote: > > Just so everyone's on the same page: > > As far as I know we're as close to Windows font metrics as we're gonna > get. Using the Windows render tree baselines we're only 0.4% behind > Windows. Most of that delta is probably stuff that we have that's > really broken, and the font-related ones are likely stuff like italics > small-caps helvetica (I think I really did see that test). > The "WebKit Linux" builder on the buildbot is only running render tree tests. > > However, many of our image expected outputs need to be regenerated, > because the font antialiasing is slightly different. > Tony set up a temporary pixel builder on his desktop, which Googlers > can access at go/chrome_linuxpixel ; hopefully that'll only be up > during the current period where we're trying to get the Linux pixel > tests matching the non-pixel Linux tests. Currently we have 1554 > failing. > > So what we should be able to get done quickly is rebaseline only tests > where we're actually passing. > 1) Find some tests that are failing on the linux pixel builder. > 2) Run them locally. > 3) Verify that they are actually passing by comparing against the > Windows baseline. Please be very careful! Many tests matter down to > the pixel. > 4) Rebaseline passing tests by running them with --new-baseline ; mark > tests that are failing in the pixel world by adding to tests_fixable > (and be sure to comment as to what the problem is). > > Adam wrote a nifty fuzzy image differ that can highlight "meaningful" > diffs between images. It's in third_party/fuzzymatch and maybe he can > comment on how he uses it. > > SMO folks: any requests on how we can avoid collisions on this? I > typically grab something from the middle (e.g. tables/mozilla/marvin) > and just hope I don't conflict.
I'm already working on an issue related to pattern drawing which I think may affect a bunch of tests with "pattern", "gradient", or "background" in the names, so for now I'll claim those. Michael --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Chromium-dev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
