That's a good idea. On Jul 11, 2013, at 2:27 AM, Lars Francke <lars.fran...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, > > I don't know much (basically nothing) about how the Hadoop QA bot is > implemented but I have a suggestion for how it could be improved and > would like some opinions and maybe pointers. > > Maven and dependency handling is a topic not very many people find > interesting. Understandably. But that means that often people > introduce dependencies without declaring them in the pom file (see > HBASE-8917[1] for one example but we had this problem before, years > ago). That often leads to weird errors at some point when an upstream > dependency changes. > > There's a plugin[2] that can analyze dependencies and their usage and > report unused dependencies and used but undeclared ones (it's not > perfect but good enough). I think it'd be great if the Hadoop QA bot > could analyze a before and after snapshot of the output of this plugin > and do a -1 if anyone introduces a new dependency without declaring > it. > > Does that sound like a good idea? > > Cheers, > Lars > > [1] <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-8917> > [2] > <http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-dependency-plugin/analyze-mojo.html>
