On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 12:46 +0000, sebb wrote: > On 17 January 2011 12:37, Oleg Kalnichevski <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 11:14 +0000, ant elder wrote: > > > > ... > > > >> When i try building the src for this i get two fails, is that expected: > >> > >> Tests in error: > >> > >> testUseRetryHandlerInConnectionTimeOutWithThreadSafeClientConnManager(org.apache.http.impl.client.TestRequestRetryHandler) > >> > >> testUseRetryHandlerInConnectionTimeOutWithSingleClientConnManager(org.apache.http.impl.client.TestRequestRetryHandler) > >> > >> Tests run: 520, Failures: 0, Errors: 2, Skipped: 0 > >> > > > > @Ant > > > > Damn. These two cases have been failing intermittently for quite some > > AIUI, the failures are not intermittent. > If the tests fail on a given system, they will continue to do so > unless the DNS service is changed. > > > due to their reliance on DNS name resolution, which tends to be behave > > differently on different platforms. > > I think it's the DNS servers that vary. Some are not compliant with the RFCs. > > > I tinkered with the test cases > > shortly before building RC2, but I was not careful enough. While the > > tests passed locally for me, they kept on failing on Hudson. I reworked > > the tests once again and this time I believe the problem has been > > resolved for good. Unfortunately the fix did not make it into RC2. > > > > If you think this is a release blocker I will call off the release and > > will cut RC3 later today. > > > > @Sebastian, what is your take? > > I don't think it's a blocker to release code with known bugs, > especially test case bugs. > > But it would be sensible to note this in the release notes on the > web-site and perhaps in the announce to the dev/user lists to > forestall any complaints.
It is a GA release and the whole trouble was of my making. I am calling off the release Folks, please bear with me for another vote based on RC3 Oleg --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
