[HADOOP-13583] Incorporate checkcompatibility script which runs Java API Compliance Checker

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.6.4
• Fix Version/s: 2.8.0, 3.0.0-alpha2
• Component/s: scripts
• Target Version/s: 2.8.0
• Assignee: Andrew Wang
• Reporter: Andrew Wang
• Created: 06/Sep/16 23:31
• Updated: 16/Nov/16 22:01
• Resolved: 01/Nov/16 23:37

Description

Based on discussion at YETUS-445, this code can't go there, but it's still very useful for release managers. A similar variant of this script has been used for a while by Apache HBase and Apache Kudu, and IMO JACC output is easier to understand than JDiff.

Issue Links

• is duplicated by: HADOOP-13423 Run JDiff on trunk for Hadoop-Common and analyze results
• is duplicated by: HADOOP-13543 [Umbrella] Analyse 2.8.0 and 3.0.0-alpha1 jdiff reports and fix any issues