Quick update re: dtests and off-heap memtables: I’ve filed CASSANDRA-14056 (Many dtests fail with ConfigurationException: offheap_objects are not available in 3.0 when OFFHEAP_MEMTABLES=“true”)
Looks like we’re gonna need to do some work to test this configuration and right now it’s pretty broken... Do we have any volunteers to fix the broken Materialized Views and CDC DTests? best, kjellman > On Nov 15, 2017, at 5:59 PM, Michael Kjellman <mkjell...@internalcircle.com> > wrote: > > yes - true- some are flaky, but almost all of the ones i filed fail 100% (💯) > of the time. i look forward to triaging just the remaining flaky ones > (hopefully - without powers combined - by the end of this month!!) > > appreciate everyone’s help - no matter how small... i already personally did > a few “fun” random-python-class-is-missing-return-after-method stuff. > > we’ve wanted this for a while and now is our time to actually execute and > make good on our previous dev list promises. > > best, > kjellman > >> On Nov 15, 2017, at 5:45 PM, Jeff Jirsa <jji...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> In lieu of a weekly wrap-up, here's a pre-Thanksgiving call for help. >> >> If you haven't been paying attention to JIRA, you likely didn't notice that >> Josh went through and triage/categorized a bunch of issues by adding >> components, and Michael took the time to open a bunch of JIRAs for failing >> tests. >> >> How many is a bunch? Something like 35 or so just for tests currently >> failing on trunk. If you're a regular contributor, you already know that >> dtests are flakey - it'd be great if a few of us can go through and fix a >> few. Even incremental improvements are improvements. Here's an easy search >> to find them: >> >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?reset=true&jqlQuery=project+%3D+CASSANDRA+AND+component+%3D+Testing+ORDER+BY+updated+DESC%2C+priority+DESC%2C+created+ASC&mode=hide >> >> If you're a new contributor, fixing tests is often a good way to learn a >> new part of the codebase. Many of these are dtests, which live in a >> different repo ( https://github.com/apache/cassandra-dtest ) and are in >> python, but have no fear, the repo has instructions for setting up and >> running dtests( >> https://github.com/apache/cassandra-dtest/blob/master/INSTALL.md ) >> >> Normal contribution workflow applies: self-assign the ticket if you want to >> work on it, click on 'start progress' to indicate that you're working on >> it, mark it 'patch available' when you've uploaded code to be reviewed (in >> a github branch, or as a standalone patch file attached to the JIRA). If >> you have questions, feel free to email the dev list (that's what it's here >> for). >> >> Many thanks will be given, >> - Jeff
