On Jun 14, 2015, at 1:00 PM, Yongjun Zhang <yzh...@cloudera.com> wrote:
> From time to time we saw changes that work fine in trunk but not branch-2,
> and we don't catch the issue in a timely manner. The difference between
> trunk and branch-2 is sufficient to justify periodic jenkins test and even
> pre-commit test for branch-2.
What is your expected outcome?
The current nightly builds have been failing pretty consistently for a
while now. Adding another one isn't going to make the situation any better
since everyone pretty much ignores them. As I said at the HDFS BOF: we
desperately need a moratorium on adding new features and need to work on
stabilizing both branch-2 and trunk. We seem to be in a "quantity over
quality" mode and it's slowly killing the project. We haven't had a stable
release since 2.4.1, which is approaching the 1 year mark.
(Yes, I know. Various vendors have shipped releases since 2.4.1 as
part of their distributions. Before saying anything, perhaps you should spend
some time with your support folks….)
As Sean pointed out, precommit for branch-2 has been working for a
while now if one provides enough hints to test-patch as part of the patch name.
