We're voting on terminology here, so I think it is important to be clear - "can't commit if it breaks X" means what it says. If you mean something else, you should word it differently. =)
I'm still -1 on Fedora for 0.2.0, but would be fine with it for 0.3.0. A. On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 2:16 PM, Bruno Mahé <[email protected]> wrote: > On 09/06/2011 02:00 PM, Andrew Bayer wrote: > > Yup, which is why we need good review, and why it'd be nice to eventually > get testpatch stuff working for all the supported releases, but we don't > have that yet, and I don't think we can reasonably mandate that everyone run > local builds of everything on all platforms all the time, etc. > > > It's more about the intent than taking things literally. Unless I need to > write proposals in lawyers terms? > Until we get the testpatch infrastructure running, we still need to be > extra careful about what gets checked in. And we can always change our > policy in that regard. > > > > I'm also -1 on Fedora currently - not sure what we gain by building on > there, really. Maybe for 0.3.0, but for now, I'd say we should just add the > one new supported platform in OpenSUSE. > > > Even though Fedora is RPM based (as CentOS and openSUSE), it is still > different enough from CentOS. > Furthermore I have also seen a bunch of tickets from people trying to get > hadoop working from their Fedora, which denotes some interest in this > platform. > > > > A. > > On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 1:57 PM, Bruno Mahé <[email protected]> wrote: > >> We can't have perfect patches and things will break. But have to make >> sure they get fixed rather sooner than later. >> Otherwise nothing prevents me from checking a patch and forget about it >> and block releases until someone else feels to fix it. >> >> >> On 09/06/2011 01:47 PM, Andrew Bayer wrote: >> > -1 on saying we can't check in a patch that breaks one of those OSes - >> the >> > important thing is that we can't *release* when any of those OSes are >> > busted. >> > >> > A. >> > >> > On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 1:44 PM, Bruno Mahé <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> >> Hi, >> >> >> >> Given no one has objected to the previous thread, I am calling a vote. >> >> >> >> So let's vote on adopting the following set of platforms: >> >> * Latest released CentOS (currently 6.0) >> >> * Latest released Ubuntu LTS (currently 10.04) >> >> * Latest released OpenSUSE (currently 11.4) >> >> * Latest released Fedora (currently 15) >> >> >> >> This means we can't check in any patch that will break any of these >> OSes. >> >> It also means we can't upgrade a component of BigTop if that component >> >> cannot be built or tested on all of these OSes. >> >> >> >> >> >> This does not preclude anyone to add support for or maintain any other >> >> platform, but this would not be a requirement for BigTop. >> >> >> >> >> >> The vote is open for 72 hours, and is open to anyone on the committers >> >> or mentors list at http://incubator.apache.org/projects/bigtop.html. >> >> >> >> >> >> Thanks! >> >> >> >> >> >> > >
