Thanks for taking this up Michael, much appreciated! If folks are looking for ways to participate in the community helping to address these issues is a great way to do so, it's also a great way to learn the project!
Patrick On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 2:39 PM, Michael Han <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I've noticed recently that besides the bugs logged as sub-tasks under > umbrella ZOOKEEPER-2135 > <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ZOOKEEPER-2135> (Fix Trunk Build), > we are constantly getting pre-commit build failures and nightly build fails > caused by other flaky unit tests. Since we mostly rely on unit tests for > quality assurance, the existence of flaky tests prevent us from getting a > clear picture of quality of the build, and could slow down our > dev/review/release process. > > So as a start step to harden unit tests, I have triaged Apache Jenkins > ZooKeeper builds over last two weeks, and created a couple of JIRAs to > track the flaky tests got extracted during the triage, and linked those > JIRAs under the umbrella ZOOKEEPER-2135. I've started working on some of > them. Help is also wanted, from analyzing Jenkins build and log bugs > (manually or through a script like this > < > https://github.com/apache/hadoop/blob/trunk/dev-support/determine-flaky-tests-hadoop.py > >), > or working on contributing patch that fix the test, or reviewing and (for > committers) commit the patch. > > Let's give these tests more love and make the Jenkins build all green > again. > > -- > Cheers > Michael. >
