3821 calculate min/max foreground

[yiheng-wang-nv]

Fixes #3821 .

Description

Status

Ready

Types of changes

• Non-breaking change (fix or new feature that would not break existing functionality).
• Breaking change (fix or new feature that would cause existing functionality to change).
• New tests added to cover the changes.
• Integration tests passed locally by running ./runtests.sh -f -u --net --coverage.
• Quick tests passed locally by running ./runtests.sh --quick --unittests --disttests.
• In-line docstrings updated.
• Documentation updated, tested make html command in the docs/ folder.

[Nic-Ma]

Looks good to me.
@wyli do you have any concerns?

Thanks.

[wyli]

/build