Top posting my own reply here Allen, I will allocate more nodes to the specific ‘Hadoop’ label/pool soon so please keep an ear out for that, if you didn’t want to add ‘ubuntu’ to any of your jobs you can wait for these.
HTH Gav… > > <snip> > >> last I checked, there have been no new build machines added to the Hadoop >> pool. > > Not true. More on this below. > >> In fact, we usually run at a deficit because machines are always down. >> (right now, we're at something like 60% capacity: H2,H3,H7,H8,H9 are all >> offline). > > Thanks, if not already, I’ll let our host donators of those boxes Yahoo! know > about that. We started sending notifications of disconnected boxes to mailing > lists, but got complaints, so that has stopped. > >> So while the build farm may have increased for the ASF overall, Hadoop is >> not benefitting from a hardware increase. > > As above, not true, this page explains more:- > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/INFRA/Jenkins+node+labels > <https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/INFRA/Jenkins+node+labels> > > I have been very careful with the wording on that page in each labelled > section. > > tl;dr here are 4 sections on that page:- > > 1. The Hadoop Nodes H0-H9 - Hadoop and related projects have priority > 2. H* Nodes that are generic and available to all (Not specifically Hadoop > and related) > 3. The generic ‘ubuntu’ nodes - everybody is welcome > 4. Miscellaneous nodes - Everybody is welcome! > > That is a minimum of 27 nodes at your disposal and this number is set to > increase even further soon. > H0-H9 are priority for Hadoop and related projects, but it does not mean you > can not use other nodes, you can, > ‘everybody is welcome’ includes Hadoop! > > In other words, feel free to change your job labels from ‘Hadoop’ to ‘Hadoop > && ubuntu’ etc...
