Dear Sqoop community, We have been working on quite a few exciting build infrastructure improvements recently, I am sending this email to summarize them.
*Gradle can now execute all the Sqoop tests in a single JVM* This improvement makes the Gradle test tasks significantly faster since we do not have to start up a new JVM for every test class. It also made possible to introduce fine grained test categories which were essential to be able to parallelize the test execution in our CI systems. For more information please refer to COMPILING.txt <https://github.com/apache/sqoop/blob/trunk/COMPILING.txt>. *Apache Sqoop Jenkins job <https://builds.apache.org/job/Sqoop-hadoop200/> now builds and tests with Gradle* Since our Gradle build became much more stable and faster it made sense to reconfigure our Jenkins job to benefit from these improvements. The job is faster now (~30 minutes instead of ~40) and it executes all of the tests which can be run without external RDBMS or cloud systems (while the old Ant based job executed the unit test suite only). *Travis CI is enabled for Apache Sqoop* The new Travis CI job <https://travis-ci.org/apache/sqoop> now runs for every commit and every pull request on Apache Sqoop GitHub repository and it executes all of the tests except the Oracle third party test cases. One of the biggest benefit of Travis CI is that it can be really easily configured for the individual forks as well so contributors get a well configured CI job for their own feature branches for free. For more information please refer to COMPILING.txt <https://github.com/apache/sqoop/blob/trunk/COMPILING.txt>. Since we have a CI job now which integrates very well with GitHub pull requests I suggest deprecating the old Review Board and patch file based contribution process and use pull requests in the future. We had a mail chain about the same proposal last year and it seemed that the community was happy about the idea so I think we can evaluate it for some time and if everything goes well we can update our how to contribute wiki. Feel free to reply to this chain with your questions and suggestions on the above! Regards, Szabolcs
