Re: master e54b94c28cd: Use @xref more consistently; "See @ref" -> "@xref"

[Stefan Kangas]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> What I think would be good is to have some kind of data structure
> mapping a source file to the tests which exercise some of the code in
> that source file.  The first approximation is to run FOO-tests when
> you modify a file FOO, but some FOO's get used in many places in the
> test suite, so this is not a simple 1:1 relation.  Then we could at
> least ask contributors to run the relevant tests as part of the
> submission process.

This sounds like it would be quite useful, indeed.

>> Ideally, we would have something in-band, i.e. an automated email, so
>> that we could avoid this manual work.  It would probably be more
>> effective, too.  I would be interested to know if there are any
>> pre-existing tools that we could use.  It might also be worth
>> considering building a custom one.  Maybe we should add looking into
>> something like that to etc/TODO?
>
> It cannot do any harm.  But I envision a problem with setting this up
> because the gnu.org infrastructure mighty not be up to the additional
> load.  However, we don't need to be afraid of this before someone
> actually works on setting this up.

That's true.  I'll see if I can come up with a useful entry.