RFC How to deal with tests that spam the report

[Francois Gouget]

On Mon, 3 Feb 2020, Francois Gouget wrote:
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> The rationale here is that after the first few repetitions additional 
> lines don't really bring any new information: sure 
> GetFontFaceReference() is unimplemented, there's no point saying so 772 
> times!
> 
> In contrast other todo lines still bring new information. This is why 
> this patch mutes individual lines rather than limiting the total number 
> of non-essential lines in a test unit.
> 
> The drawback is that some tests like ieframe:webbrowser have 10 lines 
> that each generate between 15 and 26 lines of output. So they all fly 
> under the 50 repeats threshold but still generate 14 KB all together.

Note that even so this patch is sufficient to get the new debiant VM 
under 1.5 MB (from 1.7 MB to 1.3 MB). Same thing for the cw-gtx560 
machine.

https://test.winehq.org/data/errors.html

So maybe we can use this approach for now and worry about more drastic 
options once it's no longer sufficient.

(as we keep adding tests all options will be insufficient eventually)

-- 
Francois Gouget <fgouget at codeweavers.com>