[CASSANDRA-17182] Add info how to test with your own CCM branch

• Type: Task
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Low
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: NA
• Component/s: Documentation/Website
• Change Category: Quality Assurance
• Complexity: Low Hanging Fruit
• Platform: All

Source Control Link

https://github.com/apache/cassandra-website/commit/ea04202b1da227d04acab55ab3bccee39e89a48d

Test and Documentation Plan

dtest | website

• Assignee: Ekaterina Dimitrova
• Reporter: Ekaterina Dimitrova

Authors

Ekaterina Dimitrova

Reviewers

Berenguer Blasi, Josh McKenzie

• Created: 02/Dec/21 21:15
• Updated: 27/Jan/22 17:25
• Resolved: 27/Jan/22 17:25

Description

In CASSANDRA-16688 we solved an issue with ccm and retagging.
It required to remove the -e from the beginning of this row

But now if someone wants to test with their own ccm branch, they need to add back the -e during testing so that pip3 updates with their branch. Without it, it doesn't update.

Example:

-e git+https://github.com/riptano/ccm.git@cassandra-test#egg=ccm

This is important information and I think we need to add it to at least:

• our Testing page where dtest runs are mentioned on the website
• Add a comment in requirements.txt in the dtest repo
  We can also update the README files of CCM and DTests but then if something changes we will need to update this info in 4 places which doesn't seem efficient to me.