It would be great if we could get to a point where a failure in the nightly builds automatically creates a blocker JIRA against the branch's corresponding version. Our tests are nowhere near stable enough for that to be realistic right now, so it would have to be a long-term improvement. We'd have to invest effort into stabilizing the tests first.
As a side effect, stabilizing the tests would make it feasible to enable parallel execution of tests for faster pre-commit. This is tracked in HADOOP-11984. I stabilized a few of the tests while working on that, but I had to put the effort on hold. --Chris Nauroth On 9/15/15, 1:51 AM, "Steve Loughran" <ste...@hortonworks.com> wrote: > >> On 14 Sep 2015, at 21:50, Colin P. McCabe <cmcc...@apache.org> wrote: >> >> I think building on Jenkins with jdk8 (even with source version = 1.7) >> would help prevent the jdk8 javadoc failures from creeping in. >> > >we are doing Java 8 alongside Java 7, but nobody is worrying about the >java 8 build failing. (not enough people are worrying about java 7, >either) > >switching to Java 8 only (with that source flag), is simply a matter of >stopping the java 7 build and having everyone agree to care about jenkins >trunk builds. > >> With regard to the unit test failures, maybe it's time for another >>fix-it day? >> > >+1, though that was very much a patch backlog day. > >I want us all to care more about failing jenkins builds and react fast to >failures > >
