Thanks Chris, what is the process to get CI (Jenkins I assume) for Oozie? Alejandro
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 8:34 PM, Chris Douglas <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 7:53 PM, Santhosh Srinivasan <[email protected]> > wrote: > > AFAIK there are no Mac installations of the Hadoop, Pig, Oozie, etc. > Given that the cost of catching a failing unit test during release time > (given that we don't have CI in Apache) is fairly high. Most of you must > have noticed unit test case failures on the recent release. > > CI resources are available, if interest drives someone to work on it. > What makes a failing unit test expensive during release time? > > > Use of a Mac (or Windows ;) is a convenience that we can't forego. What > are the best practices in the other Apache projects? > > In Hadoop, Windows+Cygwin was supported while developers who used it > cared to fix those bugs. When they didn't, some unit tests > consistently failed on that platform. Most projects either rely on CI > or an auditing phase during release. It's not the end of the world if > corners of trunk, or any development branch, are broken for awhile. > > YMMV, but nightly builds are usually sufficient to catch regressions. > Does this need a policy? Surely no release would go out if it didn't > work on Linux. -C > > > Santhosh > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Roman Shaposhnik > > Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2012 4:34 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Cc: Mohammad Islam > > Subject: Re: Feedback requested: Building in Linux/Mac/Doesn't matter > > > > On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 4:22 PM, Alejandro Abdelnur <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> To run tests on a given platform? No, but if doing hadoop native > >> stuff, only linux is supported at the moment. > > > > I must add to that: there is absolutely a hard requirement for > test-patch not failing to build. And that build is a Linux one. > > > > Thanks, > > Roman. >
