Agreed. Subtasks can be used for this. Enis
On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 9:10 AM, Andrew Purtell <[email protected]> wrote: > A practice that might be acceptable, if you have a patch for master and one > or more branches ready to go at once, is attach the patch for master to the > "main" issue, open subtasks for each branch patch, attach the respective > branch patches to the subtasks, and set them all to Patch Available state. > Later, committers could commit the patches using the identity of the main > issue and resolve it and the subtasks in one shot. Just a thought. > > > On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 10:31 PM, Enis Söztutar <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Devs, > > > > Over at HBASE-12944, we've made some changes so that the Precommit > jenkins > > build (commonly known and loved as hadoopqa) can now test patches on > > branches. > > > > For testing a patch on a branch, you should use the name of the branch in > > name of the patch file. For example a patch file named > > "hbase-123-0.98.patch will test the hadoopqa build on top of the 0.98 > > branch. > > > > Right now, all active branches, master, branch-1.0, branch-1, 0.98 and > 0.94 > > are supported. If no branch name is found in the patch file, master will > be > > used. > > > > Also keep in mind that hadoopqa only picks up the latest patch from an > > issue in "Patch Available" state. This means that you cannot attach 3 > > patches at the same time for different branches and expect hadoopqa to > > report on all 3. The way to test a patch for master and branch-1 for > > example would be to attach the master patch, wait for the precommit build > > [1] to start for your patch, and then after it started attach the > branch-1 > > patch with "branch-1" in the patch file name. There is another job called > > PreCommit-Admin [2] who looks at the jira issues and kicks the precommit > > build every 10 minutes. It means you have to wait at least 10 minutes in > > between (or kick [2] manually if you are a committer). > > > > [1] https://builds.apache.org/job/PreCommit-HBASE-Build/ > > [2] https://builds.apache.org/view/All/job/PreCommit-Admin/ > > > > Cheers, > > Enis > > > > > > -- > Best regards, > > - Andy > > Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back. - Piet Hein > (via Tom White) >
