After some work (much more than expected) and several iterations with folks in the JIRA, HADOOP-6671 (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-6671) should be ready for prime time. Thanks to Tom White helped getting Jenkins and JIRA scripts working.
It would be great if folks do a test drive so it can be committed to trunk and we would start the Mavenization of the rest of Hadoop (HADOOP-7412) (Without wanting to start a religious discussion here) Using Maven for building Hadoop brings several benefits: * Testing is faster. Assuming TestConfiguration takes 0 secs, a warm run using Ant takes 52 secs, a warm run using Maven takes 11 secs. * Importing Hadoop Maven project from Eclipse/IntelliJ is trivial. * Testcases run from the IDE without special settings. * Publishing artifacts to the Maven repository becomes a simple command (non-error prone task) * The build system is driven by well defined steps, allowing developers to understand/improve the build system. * Versions of external dependencies for all Hadoop are maintained in one place (hadoop-project/pom.xml) * Building ALL Hadoop can be done in one step and all current code will be used. * Most build tasks are faster using Maven ( https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-6671?focusedCommentId=13067399&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-13067399 ) The tests that use AOP are not integrated (I'll need some follow up help on that in a follow up JIRA). Said this, I guess we'll have some hiccups here and there as we all start using this daily, as they show up I'll make sure we iron them out. Thanks. Alejandro
