It wasn't until I asked Martin for help that I realized there was the
TODO file in the planning branch, and that filenames in
test/regress/*.test get their name the ID fields there.

I'm an org-mode user myself, so I'd love to eventually figure out if
there was some automated way that was being generated or something like
that: I'd love to follow the buzilla through org-mode and submit updates
to bugs via patches to the org-mode file.

But, as it stands now, I don't see any clear documentation on how to match
those file names up to bugs, and therefore it requires manual lookup to see
if a particular bug already has a regression test for it in the repository.

I am not proposing a mass-rename of existing test file names, but I would
propose that perhaps, given that bugzilla is used for the project now,
that bug-NUMBER.test, where NUMBER is the bugzilla bug number, ought to
be permitted in that directory, and bug-NUMBER-[a-z].test can be used if
you want more than one test for a bug.

John, do you like this idea, hate it, or have an alternative proposal?

I ask this now because there are a number of bugs I'd like to submit
tests for (as I did today for 492), and would like to know what filenames
I should give them when I send pull requests.

Thanks!
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   -- bkuhn

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