I have a patch at https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-8308
which takes the approach that Alejandro outlined.

Cheers,
Tom

On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 10:11 AM, Alejandro Abdelnur <t...@cloudera.com> wrote:
> Giri,
>
> On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 8:36 PM, Giridharan Kesavan
> <gkesa...@hortonworks.com> wrote:
>> Alejandro,
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 4:52 PM, Alejandro Abdelnur <t...@cloudera.com> 
>> wrote:
>>> Giri,
>>>
>>> I agree that running ALL tests all time takes a lot of time
>>> (personally I'd prefer we do this at the penalty of longer runs).
>>>
>>> Still we have a problem to solve, we need to find a solution on
>>> test-patch working for ALL maven modules, currently changes outside of
>>> common/hdfs/mapred or cross-projects test-patch does not work.
>>>
>>> So, how about the following approach:
>>>
>>> * All patches must be at trunk/ level
>>> * All patches do a full clean TARBALL creation without running testcases
>>> * From the patch file we find out the maven modules and for those
>>> modules we do javac-warns/javadoc-warns/findbugs/testcases
>>
>> I like this approach of doing a clean tarball.
>> and doing the other checks ( javac warnings, javadoc warnings, findbug
>> warnings and release audit.)
>> for that specific module.
>>
>
> Great, the idea of the doing a clean tarball it to ensure that nothing
> in the build/assembly is broken and that no API change breaks other
> modules.
>
>>>
>>> This would speed up test-patch runs and together with a nightly
>>> jenkins jobs running ALL testcases would give a complete coverage.
>>>
>>
>> test-patch and nightly jenkins jobs running ALL testcase?
>> could you pls explain this?
>
> you want to verify there is no regression because of functional
> changes in all modules, doing this once a day seems reasonable and
> will help identify the culprit early on (that is why I said in my
> original email my preference would be to run everything every time)
>
> thxs
>
> ---
> Alejandro

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