Hi guys.

I've noticed recently that a bunch of bugs fixes are going in without regression tests. We must not do that. We need these regression tests so that WebKit keeps getting better instead of playing "Whac-a-Mole" <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whac-a-Mole#Colloquial_usage>.

    People investigating bugs:
    - Please make a reduced test case into a standalone test. This can help us figure out what the bug is, and saves the person fixing the bug precious time.

    People fixing bugs:
    - Please write a test. Anders even suggests writing the test before fixing the bug, which I think is a great idea. And if you can't write a test, please make a note in the change log explaining why.

    Reviewers reviewing patches:
    - Please do review-minus if there's no test, even if the fix is otherwise correct.

    Committers checking in patches:
    - If the reviewer forgot to ask for a test, mark the bug review-minus.

I am one of the recent offenders here! At the end of the message I list eleven recent check-ins that:

    1) look to me like bug fixes
    2) don't mention any new tests that were added (either manual tests or tests in LayoutTests)
    3) don't give any excuse for the lack of tests

For these we should write some tests now, or update the change log to show the tests we did land and forgot to mention or to give excuses.

    -- Darin

2006-01-24  Darin Adler  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

      REGRESSION: _javascript_ window.opener set incorrectly

2006-01-24  Darin Adler  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

      REGRESSION (r12282-12292): Crash loading TinyMCE test app

2006-01-24  Darin Adler  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

      REGRESSION: Repro crash at Google Maps

2006-01-24  Maciej Stachowiak  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

    - fixed crash if a node is removed from the DOM before being reparented due to residual style

2006-01-24  Tim Omernick  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

    <http://bugzilla.opendarwin.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6785> "Fix for possible leak of applet, object, or emb
ed
    (and plugin view)"

2006-01-25  Adele Peterson  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

    Crash in dispatchMouseEvent - Missing nil check

2006-01-25  Alexander Kellett  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

    Percentage values for width, height are not rendered correctly.

2006-01-26  Eric Seidel  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

    SVG shows up blank in WebKit+SVG

2006-01-26  Adele Peterson  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

    - fix for <rdar://problem/4422624> REGRESSION: crash loading webmail.mac.com

2006-01-26  Alexander Kellett  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

    <text> elements with a scale on a parent <g> breaks nodeAtPoint

2006-01-26  Beth Dakin  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

    Fix for <rdar://problem/4256504> khtml::RenderBlock::skipWhitespace
    crashes upon interaction with radio buttons.

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