Thanks for the feedback everyone!

I'll get us started off with the docker and SolrJ tests. We can revisit
after a few weeks and see how it has gone.

- Houston

On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 2:28 PM Atri Sharma <a...@apache.org> wrote:

> +1.
>
> Ability to run tests in Github actions should help prevent a ton of build
> breakages.
>
> Thanks for leading this, Houston!
>
> On Fri, 18 Sep 2020 at 21:24, Houston Putman <houstonput...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Good point on the reference_impl branch. Eventually that's the goal, but
>> given there's not a timeline for that to be merged yet I think this is a
>> good stop-gap. It's a few minutes of work to get these PR actions written,
>> so I feel like there is little downside. And we can always remove them when
>> the reference_imp branch gets merged.
>>
>> This may block my ability to merge any PR whatsoever.
>>
>>
>> The docker tests will not be run on any PRs that don't touch bin/solr,
>> solr/packaging or solr/docker.
>>
>> There are complications around running integration tests in a
>> non-containerized environment as well. And if the docker image tests are
>> failing on the PR, wouldn't you rather know before committing? Even if you
>> don't want to install docker, you can call in someone else that has it to
>> help debug. Much like PRs that affect solr.cmd, for committers without
>> access to a windows machine.
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 6:23 PM Ishan Chattopadhyaya <
>> ichattopadhy...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> > It would be great to run all the tests every time, but clearly that is
>>> too expensive.
>>>
>>> The reference_impl branch requires around 30 seconds to run all
>>> solr-core tests. That's where we should all put our collective efforts.
>>> Also, I have reservations against docker based tests blocking PRs. If I
>>> don't have docker running on my dev machine, I wouldn't be able to make
>>> those tests pass. This may block my ability to merge any PR whatsoever.
>>> Why can't we have integration tests that do not rely on docker?
>>>
>>> On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 9:26 PM Houston Putman <houstonput...@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thought I'd make this a thread instead of a discussion on a single JIRA
>>>> ticket.
>>>>
>>>> Currently we have gradle precommit run on PRs for master, which is very
>>>> useful and gives people confidence in approving PRs. But precommit is
>>>> obviously not the only thing we care about before committing. It would be
>>>> great to run all the tests every time, but clearly that is too expensive.
>>>>
>>>> In SOLR-14856 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-14856>, I
>>>> proposed adding a github action to build and test the solr docker image for
>>>> PRs that affected relevant parts of the repo (solr/docker, solr/bin,
>>>> solr/packaging and solr/contrib/prometheus-exporter/bin). Running the
>>>> docker tests currently takes roughly 12 minutes in the github action, which
>>>> would be costly if it ran on every PR. But when running on the small
>>>> percentage of PRs that affect those code paths, I think the benefit
>>>> outweighs the cost.
>>>>
>>>> Beyond just the docker tests, I think we can leverage this ability for
>>>> other features that are limited to certain code paths. For example running
>>>> tests for contrib modules, testing solr/examples, and many of
>>>> the independent lucene modules. The SolrJ tests just ran in 3 minutes
>>>> locally for me, maybe that'd be a good candidate as well.
>>>>
>>>> Anyways I'm sure there are other good candidates out there, but I just
>>>> wanted to start the discussion and hear other opinions before diving any
>>>> deeper.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> --
> Regards,
>
> Atri
> Apache Concerted
>

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