Hi Alan,

Currently, the test system executes tests on a specific branch only if
there is a Jenkins job assigned to it, like trunk or spark. Any other
branch will not work. We will need to create a job for branch-1, modify the
jenkins-submit-build.sh to add the new profile, and add a new properties
file to the Jenkins instance that contains branch information.

This is a little tedious for every branch we create.

Also, I don't think the test system will grab two patches (branch-1 &
master) to execute the tests on different branches. It will get the latest
one you uploaded.

What about if we use the 'Affects Version/s' field of the ticket to specify
which branches the patch needs to be executed? Or as you said, use hints on
the comments.

For instance:
- Affects Version/s: branch-1  # Tests on branch-1 only
- Affects Version/s: 2.0.0 branch-1           # Tests on branch-1 and master
- Affects Version/s: branch-spark             # Tests on branch-spark only

If we use 'branch-xxx' as a naming convention for our branches, then we can
detect the branch from the ticket details. And if x.x.x version is
specified, then just execute them from master.

Also, branch-1 would need to be executed with MR1, right? Then the patch
file would need to be named 'HIVE-XXXX-mr1.patch' so that it uses the MR1
environment.

Right now the code that parses this info is on process_jira function on
'jenkins-common.sh', and it is called by 'jenkins-submit-build.sh'. We can
parse different branches there, and let jenkins-submit-build.sh call the
correct job with specific branch details.

Any other ideas?

- Sergio


On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 6:19 PM, Alan Gates <alanfga...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Based on our discussion and vote last week I'm working on creating
> branch-1.   I plan to make the branch tomorrow.  If anyone has a large
> commit they don't want to have to commit twice and they are close to
> committing it let me know so I can make sure it gets in before I branch.
>
> I'll also be updating
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/HowToContribute to
> clarify how to handle feature and bug fix patches on master and branch-1.
>
> Also, we will need to make sure patches can be tested against master and
> branch-1.  If I understand correctly the test system today will run a patch
> against a branch instead of master if the patch is named with the branch
> name.  There are a couple of issues with this.  One, people will often want
> to submit two versions of patches and have them both tested (one against
> master and one against branch-1) rather than one or the other.  The second
> is we will want a way for one patch to be tested against both when
> appropriate.  The first case could be handled by the system picking up both
> branch-1 and master patches and running them automatically.  The second
> could be handled by hints in the comments so the system needs to run both.
> I'm open to other suggestions as well.  Can someone familiar with the
> testing code point to where I'd look to see what it would take to make this
> work?
>
> Alan.
>

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