+1 this is a great way to also ramp on the code base On Sun, Aug 30, 2020 at 8:00 AM Sivabalan <n.siv...@gmail.com> wrote:
> As Hudi matures as a project, we need to get our devX and test infra rock > solid. Availability of test utils and base classes for ease of writing more > tests, stable integration tests, ease of debuggability, micro benchmarks, > performance test infra, automating checkstyle formatting, nightly snapshot > builds and so on. > > We have identified and categorized these into different areas as below. > > - Test fixes and some clean up. // There are a lot of jira tickets > lying around in this section. > - Test refactoring. // For ease of development, and reduce clutter, we need > to work on refactoring test infra like having more test utils, base classes > etc. > - More tests to improve coverage in some areas. > - CI stability and ease of debugging integration tests. > - Checkstyle, sl4j, warnings, spotless, etc. > - Micro benchmarks. // add benchmarking framework to hudi. and then > identify regressions on any key paths. > - Long running test suite > - Config clean ups in hudi client > - Perf test environment > - Nightly builds > > As we plan out work in each of these sections, we are looking for help from > the community in getting these done. Plan is to put together a few umbrella > tickets for each of these areas and will have a coordinator. Coordinator > will be one who has expertise in the area of interest. Coordinator will > plan out the work in their resp area and will help drive the initiative > with help from the community depending on who volunteers to help out. > > I understand the list is huge. Some work areas will be well defined and > should be able to get it done if we allocate enough time and resources. But > some are exploratory in nature and need some initial push to get the ball > rolling. > > Very likely some of the work items in these would be well defined and > should be easy for new folks to contribute. We are not really having any > target timeframe in mind(as we had 1 month for bug bash), but would like to > get concrete work items done in decent time and have others ready by the > next major release(for eg, perf test env) depending on resources. > > Let us know if you would be interested to help our community in this > regard. > > -- > Regards, > -Sivabalan >
