> > I'd add: > Large scale of our code base > Difficulty of testing at scale without plenty of hardware (which was a problem > stated during incubation proposal)
I'm going to start off a branch specifically to do BVT on simulator and devCloud so that we can at least have system vms/vrs and business logic tested. Specific hardware will be different but should be a much smaller part of our code base. Also I believe specific hardware code can be broken but mostly won't affect others. Here the main concern is changes impacting the developer community at large. > > > > We should also be prepared to discuss how other ASF projects deal with > > this, and how we are different from them (are we bigger, are we moving > > faster, etc...). > > > > > Honestly the Hadoop ecosystem has some of the same problems. It might be > worth talking with some of those folks. > > > So if we want to head down this path, which again I think we should > > (and I understand some of the concerns raised by others... we need to > > deal with those specific issues), then we need to bring the points > > above to a conclusion. > > > > Who wants to drive this discussion forward? > > The person who drives this, particularly with infrastructure, should be the > person who plans on doing the work to get this accomplished. In my mind > this is a medium term effort - probably a couple of months. I'm perfectly fine with driving the BVT side of things but like I said, I don't think I can do the infra side of things. Someone else needs to take that over. --Alex
