I don't know Josh's concerns, but the concern for me is both resources and time. No matter how much resources we have, it is still not infinite, and I'd rather we focus our testing efforts on the changeset between the previous release and the minor/bugfix release, rather than spend resources and time on all the exhaustive general testing, which mostly exercises code that has not changed.
For instance, do we really need 72-hours of continuous ingest on a large cluster to release a bugfix which affects the shell? If the long running tests are what is necessary to exercise the changeset, that makes sense, but otherwise, no. -- Christopher L Tubbs II http://gravatar.com/ctubbsii On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 3:20 PM, David Medinets <[email protected]> wrote: > -1 I hesitate to step into this discussion because I can't also step > up and do the long-term testing even as I recommend that it must be > done. There are at least four companies supporting Accumulo and > contributing back to the project. Surely one of those companies can > supply the resources to continue the existing test regimen? Is there > some concern that those resources won't be available for the next > release cycle? > > On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 3:13 PM, Josh Elser <[email protected]> wrote: > > As we're starting to consider 1.5.2 and 1.6.1 coming out in the near > future, > > I want to revisit a discussion[1] I started at the end of April regarding > > the "testing burden" that is currently set forth in our release > document[2]. > > > > What I'm proposing is to modify the language of the release document to > be > > explicit about the amount of testing needed. For bug-fix, "minor" > releases > > (e.g. 1.5.2 and 1.6.1), the 7 days of testing using continuous ingest and > > randomwalk (with and without agitation) will be clearly defined as "may" > > instead of "should" or "must" language. If the resources are available, > it > > is recommended that some longer, multi-process/node test is run against > the > > release candidate; however, it is not required and should not prevent us > > from making the minor release. > > > > I will also include language that strongly recommends that the changes > > included in the "minor" release be vetted/reviewed as a way to mitigate > the > > risk of shipping new regressions. > > > > I am not recommending that the language be changed for "major" releases > > (e.g. 1.7.0 and 2.0.0) as these releases still imply significant new > > features or internal changes. > > > > Unless someone informs me otherwise, I will treat this as a normal > > lazy-consensus approval. Assuming we move closer to "proper" semantic > > versioning for 2.0.0, I believe these updated guidelines will change > again. > > I do however think there is merit in making this change now so that we > can > > get the good bugs that we've fixed out to our users. > > > > Let me know what you think. I will wait, at least, the prescribed three > days > > before changing any thing. > > > > - Josh > > > > [1] > > > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/accumulo-dev/201404.mbox/%3C535931A7.30605%40gmail.com%3E > > [2] http://accumulo.apache.org/governance/releasing.html >
