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. >
