Apologies for a bunch of delayed responses (and as such adding even more emails to this thread).
On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 4:47 PM, Arun C Murthy <a...@hortonworks.com> wrote: >> My reading of your response is that while you appreciate the feedback >> Bigtop is providing you're not of an opinion that investigating the level >> of stability of Hadoop wrt. downstream any further than what is currently >> happening would be a worthy investment of Hadoop's community >> (or your personal for that matter) time? > > Everyone is welcome to contribute in any and all manner. I can't speak for > everyone. > It would be useful if Bigtop could run regressions on releases here > consistently. > We've also talked in the past about running Bigtop on branch-2, nightly. > Is that something you could help with? You'd earn my personal gratitude. There's a bunch of stuff that Bigtop can offer wrt. infrastructure and existing functionality that helps with integration testing of Hadoop. There's 10x more stuff we can do if folks other than Bigtop members would be willing to pitch in. I think a good closure to this discussion would be to identify things that we can do in Bigtop to help Hadoop stabilize quicker and also identify anybody who's potentially willing to help implementing these ideas. I'll try to collect all the good points that you and others have made on this thread wrt. this approach and will fork it into a separate discussion shortly. Thanks, Roman.
