+1. Your work is much appreciated!

On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 11:57 AM, lars hofhansl <[email protected]> wrote:
> During the past few days I spend some time to bring the 0.94 test back into 
> shape.
>
> GC issues, bad backports, hanging tests, memory issues, you name it.
> I do not want to ever have to do that again.
>
> The good news is: The 0.94 tests are back in shape now. Yeah!
>
> If you commit a patch it is your responsibility to make sure it passes the 
> test suite.
> Either the tests should be fixed in a reasonable amount of time or the commit 
> should be reverted.
> This is mainly for committers, contributors should also watch the test runs 
> for their patches.
> No excuses. The tests are passing now.
> I do not care whether a test passes locally, or whether it fails rarely, or 
> whether some tests failed previously, or whatever.
>
> Please, consider this a condition for me to continue as release manager for 
> 0.94.
> (This is only for the 0.94 tests. I cannot speak for HadoopQA, or the regular 
> trunk test suite, although eventually I assume we want similar guidelines 
> there)
>
> I increased the retention time for past builds. I will find you :)
> I will publicly shame you. I will retroactively -1 the change and revert it, 
> and then shame you again. :)
>
> Lastly, this is a function of the large amount of contributed patches. So it 
> is a good problem to have.
> HBase it an actively maintained project and we certainly want to keep it this 
> way, just with an acknoledgement that keeping the test suite passing is 
> important.
>
> Thanks and Merry Christmas (to whoever celebrates that).
>
> -- Lars



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// Jonathan Hsieh (shay)
// Software Engineer, Cloudera
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