Looking at https://builds.apache.org/job/hbase-0.98/ , there were 9 failed builds out of the last 17 builds. The success rate for https://builds.apache.org/job/HBase-0.98-on-Hadoop-1.1/was even lower.
I think effort of making the builds, especially hbase-0.98, more stable should be considered. My two cents. On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 3:13 PM, Andrew Purtell <[email protected]> wrote: > Do we keep filing the "TestFoo occasionally fails on builds.apache.org" > type of issues as builds.apache.org gets slower and slower? We can see the > build results independent of JIRA so for documentary purposes the rationale > seems light. > > I run the 0.98 unit test suite 20 times daily on JDK 6 and 7 boxes and have > not observed failures or zombies for a while now. Those EC2 VMs are clearly > reasonable test environments compared to builds.apache.org, sadly. I'm > tempted to close any test issue reporting something on > builds.apache.orgthat I don't see as Cannot Reproduce but wonder how > common that feeling is. > > Of course small patches to increase a timeout here or retry more often > there could be useful and acceptable. At the same time, do we increase the > tolerances for builds.apache.org and trade away the effectiveness of the > test to catch real timing issues? > > > -- > Best regards, > > - Andy > > Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back. - Piet Hein > (via Tom White) >
