Roman,
I respectfully disagree and not going to start a debate on proper test and
development methodology, as they are very much so customer and workload
centric.
Regardless, I would like to propose to package these scripts
separately (i.e. called hadoop-utils.deb/rpm) and let the admin decide
whether to utilize these scripts.

On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 7:17 PM, Roman Shaposhnik <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 4:23 PM, MrAsanjar . <[email protected]> wrote:
> > these scripts get used extensively as part of our test and development,
> as
> > it provides lightweight cluster management without having any
> dependencies
> > on other tools like Ambari and puppet.
>
> Then I have to ask: if you're testing this as part of your end-to-end
> system
> testing you're really not testing the right thing (remember: in production
> those scripts are gone in pretty much most of the distros).
>
> If you're simply testing Hadoop from a quick smoke test perspective, why
> bother with packages to begin with? Untar the binary tarball an go.
>
> Thanks,
> Roman.
>
> P.S. I remember having this exact discussion with Cloudera QA team way back
> when: if you're not testing what your customers will be deploying you're
> not
> really testing much.
>

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