Suresh, I appreciate all the troubles you're going through wrt syncing up the huge patch for a long time - I really do.
I am not asking to have full test-patch process in place. But I think it is a real good idea to have a way to run the full test suite once in a while - or as Konstantin proposing - for a given patch, to make sure that codebase doesn't bitrot at the edges. "Official" support has nothing to do with the issue - you're trying to build a straw man argument around this. What is relevant, on the other hand, is that Windows is so different from _any_ Unix or pseudo-Unix flavors, including Windows with Cygwin - that even multi-platform Java has hard hard time dealing with it. This is enough, IMO, to warrant a separate checkpoint. I hope I have explained myself better. Cos On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 05:55PM, Suresh Srinivas wrote: > > It seems that with the HW in place, the matter of setting at least nightly > > build is trivial for anyone with up to date Windows knowledge. I wish I > > could > > help. Going without a validation is a recipe for a disaster IMO. > > > > -1 until some reasonable solution is implemented. > > Cos > > > Cos, I have hard time understanding your veto? > > Here is my rationale for merge: > Currently with all the cross platform support, the merge patch has +1 from > Jenkins on Linux. So no regression has been introduced in Hadoop on Linux. > > As regards to Windows support I want to make two points: > 1. Until Jenkins is setup and we are passing all the tests, I am okay, as > Konstntin proposed, if we do not officially declare Windows as supported. I > do not want to tie the patch merge with setting up Windows Jenkins. I have > been maintaining this branch for a long time and keeping it in sync with > trunk is non-trivial. > 2. After Jenkins is setup, there is a concern in the community about -1 > from Windows hindering patch commits. As others have already suggested in > the thread, I am okay committing new patches even if -1 is posted by > Jenkins on Windows. The team that worked on Windows will fix the issues. I > do not see many such issues cropping up.
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