That is already part of the policy although it apparently remained unnoticed:
*If a commit introduces new test failures, the preferred process is to revert
the patch, rather than opening a new JIRA to fix the new failures.*
It can be reworded to be stricter... But in any case, we should all enforce it
from now on.
-Jesús
On 5/15/18, 3:55 PM, "Sergey Shelukhin" <ser...@hortonworks.com> wrote:
+1. Can we also add something about revert-first policy if some patch
breaks tests?
So that it’s ok to revert if the tests aren’t fixed quickly with a
follow-up.
On 18/5/15, 13:08, "Jesus Camacho Rodriguez" <jcama...@apache.org> wrote:
>I was hoping that by being stricter, we are going to make an effort to
>fix the flaky
>tests. The reason is precisely what you mention: if you cannot commit,
>you need
>to fix this situation. That is what I meant with providing an additional
>incentive to
>make testing more robust: currently there is no incentive. I do not think
>that
>improving tests is a responsibility of a single developer, but rather a
>responsibility
>of all of us. Disabling the tests is a one-time solution to get to a
>clean run, trying to
>accelerate the process to get to it, as we did not want to block
>development for
>weeks. Then flaky tests should just not go in, and if they do, we can
>just revert
>the patch (this is what [2] says btw).
>
>The first thing we need to do is identifying why a test is flaky. After
>examining runs
>for the last few days, I saw many of them fall in following categories:
>- Many of them are flaky because of estimations such as data size. One
>possible
>solution is to mask data size for those tests, as we already mask some
>environment
>dependent information.
>- Some of them are flaky because environment issues, e.g., I see this a
>lot with
>TestTriggersMoveWorkloadManager. If their logic cannot be rewritten, a
>possible
>solution is to add a max number of retries selectively for those tests
>(surefire has
>a rerunFailingTestsCount option that I am not familiar with), expecting
>that they
>pass at least once.
>
>Not sure if you have other ideas?
>
>-Jesús
>
>
>On 5/15/18, 11:59 AM, "Vihang Karajgaonkar" <vih...@cloudera.com> wrote:
>
> Can we also define a standard process to identify a flaky test and
>thereby
> making it eligible to be disabled? I am worried that the intermittent
>the
> flaky ones will stall the patches when we restart allowing the
>commits.
>
> On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 10:50 AM, Vineet Garg <vg...@hortonworks.com>
>wrote:
>
> > +1
> >
> > > On May 15, 2018, at 9:13 AM, Alan Gates <alanfga...@gmail.com>
>wrote:
> > >
> > > +1.
> > >
> > > Alan.
> > >
> > > On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 9:12 AM, Sergio Pena
><sergio.p...@cloudera.com>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > >> +1
> > >>
> > >> On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 11:05 AM, Gunther Hagleitner <
> > >> ghagleit...@hortonworks.com> wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> +1
> > >>> ________________________________________
> > >>> From: Sankar Hariappan <shariap...@hortonworks.com>
> > >>> Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2018 9:03 AM
> > >>> To: dev@hive.apache.org
> > >>> Subject: Re: [VOTE] Stricter commit guidelines
> > >>>
> > >>> +1
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> On 15/05/18, 9:30 PM, "Sahil Takiar" <takiar.sa...@gmail.com>
>wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>>> +1
> > >>>>
> > >>>> On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 10:56 AM, Owen O'Malley <
> > owen.omal...@gmail.com
> > >>>
> > >>>> wrote:
> > >>>>
> > >>>>> +1
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 8:55 AM, Peter Vary
><pv...@cloudera.com>
> > >> wrote:
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>>> +1 - Hoping for something like this for a long while! Thanks
>for
> > >>> taking
> > >>>>>> this up all!
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>>> On May 15, 2018, at 5:44 PM, Jesus Camacho Rodriguez <
> > >>>>>> jcama...@apache.org> wrote:
> > >>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>> Forgot to mention the length of the vote in original
>message.
> > >>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>> Let's leave the vote open for a shorter period than usual,
>for
> > >>> instance
> > >>>>>> 48 hours, i.e., till Wednesday 10pm PST. Situation can only
>get
> > >> worse
> > >>>>> than
> > >>>>>> it is now if we do not take action for a longer period.
> > >>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>> As Alan suggested, vote passes if there is a lazy majority
>(at
> > >>> least 3
> > >>>>>> votes, more +1s than -1s).
> > >>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>> Thanks,
> > >>>>>>> Jesús
> > >>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>> On 5/15/18, 8:37 AM, "Andrew Sherman"
><asher...@cloudera.com>
> > >>> wrote:
> > >>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>> +1
> > >>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>> On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 2:34 AM Rui Li
><lirui.fu...@gmail.com>
> > >>>>> wrote:
> > >>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>> +1
> > >>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>> On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 2:24 PM, Prasanth Jayachandran <
> > >>>>>>>> pjayachand...@hortonworks.com> wrote:
> > >>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>> +1
> > >>>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>> Thanks
> > >>>>>>>>> Prasanth
> > >>>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>> On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 10:44 PM -0700, "Jesus Camacho
> > >> Rodriguez"
> > >>> <
> > >>>>>>>>> jcama...@apache.org<mailto:jcama...@apache.org>> wrote:
> > >>>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>> After work has been done to ignore most of the tests that
>were
> > >>>>> failing
> > >>>>>>>>> consistently/intermittently [1], I wanted to start this
>vote to
> > >>>>> gather
> > >>>>>>>>> support from the community to be stricter wrt committing
>patches
> > >>> to
> > >>>>>> Hive.
> > >>>>>>>>> The committers guide [2] already specifies that a +1
>should be
> > >>>>> obtained
> > >>>>>>>>> before committing, but there is another clause that allows
> > >>> committing
> > >>>>>>>> under
> > >>>>>>>>> the presence of flaky tests (clause 4). Flaky tests are
>as good
> > >> as
> > >>>>>> having
> > >>>>>>>>> no tests, hence I propose to remove clause 4 and enforce
>the +1
> > >>> from
> > >>>>>>>>> testing infra before committing.
> > >>>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>> As I see it, by enforcing that we always get a +1 from the
> > >> testing
> > >>>>>> infra
> > >>>>>>>>> before committing, 1) we will have a more stable project,
>and 2)
> > >>> we
> > >>>>>> will
> > >>>>>>>>> have another incentive as a community to create a more
>robust
> > >>> testing
> > >>>>>>>>> infra, e.g., replacing flaky tests for similar unit tests
>that
> > >> are
> > >>>>> not
> > >>>>>>>>> flaky, trying to decrease running time for tests, etc.
> > >>>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>> Please, share your thoughts about this.
> > >>>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>> Here is my +1.
> > >>>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>> Thanks,
> > >>>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>> Jes?s
> > >>>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>> [1]
>http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/hive-dev/201805.
> > >>>>>>>>>
>mbox/%3C63023673-AEE5-41A9-BA52-5A5DFB2078B6%40apache.org%3E
> > >>>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>> [2] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/
> > >>>>>>>>> HowToCommit#HowToCommit-PreCommitruns,andcommittingpatches
> > >>>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>> --
> > >>>>>>>> Best regards!
> > >>>>>>>> Rui Li
> > >>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>> --
> > >>>> Sahil Takiar
> > >>>> Software Engineer
> > >>>> takiar.sa...@gmail.com | (510) 673-0309
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>
> >
> >
>
>
>
