Closed Bug 811109 Opened 12 years ago Closed 9 years ago

--filter option of PerfConfigurator needs better documentation.

Categories

(Testing :: Talos, defect)

Product:
Testing
Component:
Talos
Version:
2.0 Branch
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: nebelhom, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:16.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/16.0
Build ID: 20121025210744

Steps to reproduce:

There is no description on how to use the --filter option in PerfConfigurator in the documentation anywhere. The --help doc is not very helpful, either. Maybe add an example on how to use several filters in one call.

There is also a difference between series and scalar filters. The last mentioned filter has to be a scalar filter and the other ones before all have to be series filters. This is also not mentioned anywhere.
This probably belongs in the wiki or README since filters are complicated.  In the long term, we want to eliminate filters and graphserver altogether.  I would vote for the wiki: the README is heavily outdated and quite frankly I'd rather delete it and start again when convenient vs try to rescue it at this point
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
The filter option has been removed with bug 1191796.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 9 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
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