The unit test was only on Java 1.8. That problem will be resolved in the next release which will be in roughly a month from now. The current primary target of Drill is 1.7.
The number of reviewers for the release is an indication of how the community doesn't view Java 1.8 as a critical platform at this time. On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 8:41 AM, jan i <j...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi. > > I have had a look at your release and it looks good, I could not find any > formal errors. > > But I took a closer look at the release vote thread, because a failing unit > test is a serious bad quality signal for me. > > Whenever I test new software, I download it, build it, then run all test > cases to secure I got it build correctly, where I assume I have made > something wrong if a test case fails. > > Apache is known for quality software and I think we all want to keep that > image. I am sure the project does not take quality lightly, but the > attitude "can be fixed later" especially with unit tests is to me not a > good policy. > > If the software only runs with 1.7 and not higher, then why not make a > simple startup version check, then there would be no problem (of course its > even better to solve the problem). I just wonder how this error will affect > people using the project. > > It seems (from the vote thread) you already have solved the problem, but > dont want to wait for a respin, can you please at least explain why the > project is under such a time constraint, that 72 hours is too long to wait > to make good quality. > > I wanted to give the release a -1 but decided to give > > -0 binding. > > in the hope the PMC will go for quality and voluntary respin the release. > > rgds > jan i > > > > On 7 October 2014 07:09, Steven Phillips <sphill...@maprtech.com> wrote: > > > In case there is any confusion, the first email sent out in this thread > had > > the wrong vote count. The second one has the correct count: > > > > +9 binding > > +3 non-binding > > > > I should also mention there was one -0 (binding). This was due to unit > test > > failures when using java 1.8. Jiras were filed, and the fix will be > > included in the next release, not this one. > > > > On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 11:14 AM, Steven Phillips <s...@apache.org> wrote: > > > > > I would like to present the Apache Drill 0.6.0-incubating release to > > > the general incubator list for a vote. This set of artifacts have > passed > > > our drill-dev vote and incorporate a number of improvements with over > 30 > > > JIRAs closed in the last month. > > > > > > The vote thread can be found here: > > > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-drill-dev/201410.mbox/%3CCAA_-67fAJFB20wGX462wm7BYvoSy3PvydCPgY9uNSEj3HpQRmg%40mail.gmail.com%3E > > > > > > The vote passed with: > > > +9 binding > > > +3 non-binding > > > > > > You can find the artifacts for the release at this location: > > http://people.apache.org/~smp/apache-drill-0.6.0.rc0/ > > > > > > I look forward to your feedback. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Steven > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Steven Phillips > > Software Engineer > > > > mapr.com > > >
