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[Smith, Michael ERDC-CRREL-NH]

Well, all the tests are optional.....


On 8/13/10 8:10 AM, "Martin Daly" <Martin.Daly at cadcorp.com> wrote:

>>> As already discussed in yesterday's irc meeting, I would like to propose
>>> that we trim the
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>>> tests down to "best effort" vector and raster only.
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>>>  
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>>> It seems rather silly doing a baseline test when everyone still has
>>> different shape indexes,
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>>> different styling, different overview pyramids.
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>>> We already have a lot of tests to do and not that much time, so this would
>>> allow us to
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>>>  concentrate on best effort.
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>>> What do you think?
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>> I understand and respect where you are coming from, but my feeling is that if
>> anything I would
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>>  trim to *just* baseline, as time is short, styling should be able to be
>> nearly identical, and
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>>  pyramids as well. Shape indexes can/should be documented as per:
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>> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Benchmarking_2010#Documenting_Server_Details_and_D
>> ifferences
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> Would an acceptable compromise be to make the baseline tests optional? So the
> choice is:
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> 1. baseline
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> 2. best effort
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> 3. baseline and best effort
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> Martin
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