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.
>

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