On Sun, Jun 23, 2019 at 8:23 PM Jim Apple <apa...@jbapple.com> wrote:
> > > > Generally I think precommit running on something closer to the oldest > > supported OS is better than running on the newest, since it's more likely > > that new OSes are backward-compatible. Otherwise it's very easy to > > introduce code that uses features not available on el7, for example. > > > > I find that argument compelling. Do you think we should switch the > pre-commit job to CentOS 7? > Seems reasonable to me, if someone wants to volunteer the time to do it :) Perhaps others have some reason why it wouldn't work well, though. -Todd -- Todd Lipcon Software Engineer, Cloudera