Hey All, Community testing during the QA window is an important part of the release cycle in Spark. It helps us deliver higher quality releases by vetting out issues not covered by our unit tests.
I was thinking that from now on, it would be nice to recognize the organizations that donate time to help test release previews and release candidates. So starting with Spark 1.4, barring any major objection, I was planning to highlight those groups as test partners when we make release notes, similar to how we thank contributors for the release. That is, companies or teams that commit to doing nontrivial release testing such as testing real workloads, performance tests, or other integration tests. Hopefully this will provide recognition to those parts of the community and also encourage others to help test Spark releases. - Patrick --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@spark.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@spark.apache.org
