On 10 May 2013 00:24, Mircea Markus <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On 9 May 2013, at 23:47, Sanne Grinovero wrote:
>
>> On 9 May 2013 23:18, Mircea Markus <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 9 May 2013, at 22:13, Sanne Grinovero wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 9 May 2013 21:38, Mircea Markus <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On 9 May 2013, at 16:03, Sanne Grinovero wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 9 May 2013 15:10, Manik Surtani <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>> This is something we discussed last year.  IIRC we agreed that all 
>>>>>>> cache stores (except the 0-dep FCS) and hot rod clients will move out 
>>>>>>> of the infinispan repo, and have their own repos.  They will also have 
>>>>>>> their own release cycles, so will only be released as and when there is 
>>>>>>> a change in their code.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I remember the discussion, but never agreed on it being a good idea.
>>>>>> I'm not strictly against it, just that I am not understanding the
>>>>>> point if it, while there are drawbacks.
>>>>> pros: reduce distribution size, keep build time for the core manageable, 
>>>>> allow a per/cachestore upgrade.
>>>>
>>>> Is that the only advantage?
>>> indeed the first one I mentioned could be achieved through packaging, but 
>>> not the last two.
>>
>> I don't understand the merit on the last two either:
>>
>> # "keep build time for the core manageable"
>>
>> Manik mentioned that all CacheStore s would be tested after each core
>> change, even rising the question of how to let the CORE build fail in
>> case one would have problems, so you still have to run tests for all
>> modules: the build time doesn't change neither for pull request
>> reviewers nor CI server.
> They shouldn't be tested on every build the same we we don't test 3rd party 
> cache stores on every build. Once a day should be enough IMO.
> Also we'll have the FileCacheStore and the RemoteCacheStore that run on every 
> build.

Ok that clarifies the goal. Use profiles?

>>
>> Admit it: you plan to not run all tests all the time, or if a
>> CacheStore fails to fix it "later".
> no :-) fix it as soon as it is spotted and ad a test in the core suite to 
> make sure it won't happen again.
>
>> At the very best such a fix
>> happens after the damage is done.
> Possibly. Things should improve with time though, as unit tests are added to 
> catch the failures.
>
>>
>> Note that the MongoDB CacheStore - even if just in pull request state
>> - self activates its own build (and tests) only if the runtime
>> provides a MongoDB instance., so partially applying this idea to
>> simplify build requirements (i.e. not mandating a MongoDB installation
>> to build infinispan core tests). Of course this would be still
>> expected from team members and CI server.
> that's quite clever
>> It's an example of another approach to disable some modules - if you
>> really want that - without changing the source structure.
>>
>> # "allow a per/cachestore upgrade"
>>
>> I'm confused on this one. Do you mean "allow the team to forget
>> updating some cachestore" ?
> The main reason is: if we fix a critical bug e.g. JDBC cache store we can 
> release it immediately without an full release cycle and people can take 
> advantage of that sooner.

-1
Release it all often.

>> To me it looks like a proposal to downgrade importance of maintenance
>> of some (all?) cachestores;
>> we could discuss that if you prefer? It
>> just looks like a different subject.
>>
>>>> Because the source control should have
>>>> nothing to do with how the distribution is assembled.
>>>> I still don't see why it's worth the effort,
>>> it's a pretty straight forward task to move them out. Same to add CI job :-)
>>>> and the pain.
>>> If you're referring to the possibility of the cache store build to fail, I 
>>> don't think this is negative thing as the core test suite should only get 
>>> better.
>>
>> Not every change is an improvement; I don't think the test suite will
>> improve automagically if we make the wrong choices. But by "pain" I
>> was referring to the need to keep multiple repositories in sync
>> without cross-tagging capabilities nor anything similar; you'll need
>> releases of one to move forward with the other, etc..
>> Or is the plan to use git modules?
>> Usually people resolve such problems by merging multiple projects in a
>> single repo..
>>
>> In summary, I'm not strictly against it as technically I won't
>> maintain either side of the integration, just that I see *exclusively*
>> disadvantages for you so I'm quite confused by the suggestion.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Sanne
>>
>>>
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