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Jark Wu commented on FLINK-13730:
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Oh, I just saw the description of FLINK-11463. And I think FLINK-11463 covers
what I want in this issue. So I think we can close this issue.
But maybe we can split the PR into smaller ones to make the caching mechanism
to be merged first.
> Cache and share the downloaded external distribution (e.g. Kafka) in E2E tests
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> Key: FLINK-13730
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-13730
> Project: Flink
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Connectors / Kafka, Tests
> Reporter: Jark Wu
> Priority: Major
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> We can try to cache and share the downloaded Kafka distribution among
> multiple e2e test runs.
> There is a PR by Chesnay Schepler (https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/7605)
> which conceptually does it.
> This will help to reduce a lot of e2e testing time. And it would be very help
> for Chinese developers to verify e2e locally, because it's very unstable and
> almost impossible to download them in China.
> We can do the same thing for other external distributions, for example,
> elasticsearch.
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