On Sun, Jun 23, 2019 at 8:23 PM Jim Apple <apa...@jbapple.com> wrote:

> >
> > Generally I think precommit running on something closer to the oldest
> > supported OS is better than running on the newest, since it's more likely
> > that new OSes are backward-compatible. Otherwise it's very easy to
> > introduce code that uses features not available on el7, for example.
> >
>
> I find that argument compelling. Do you think we should switch the
> pre-commit job to CentOS 7?
>

Seems reasonable to me, if someone wants to volunteer the time to do it :)
Perhaps others have some reason why it wouldn't work well, though.

-Todd
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Todd Lipcon
Software Engineer, Cloudera

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