[CASSANDRA-18197] Builds being often aborted because of python3 ./scripts/gen-nodetool-docs.py being slow

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Normal
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 3.11.15, 4.0.8, 4.1.1, 5.0-alpha1, 5.0
• Component/s: Build
• Bug Category: Correctness
• Severity: Low
• Complexity: Normal
• Discovered By: User Report
• Platform: All
• Since Version: 3.11.12

Source Control Link

https://github.com/apache/cassandra/commit/03c86cfcb0dd31a9c904e2561e3f8a1f26357a44

Test and Documentation Plan

run CI

• Assignee: Brandon Williams
• Reporter: Ekaterina Dimitrova

Authors

Brandon Williams

Reviewers

Michael Semb Wever

• Created: 25/Jan/23 15:04
• Updated: 12/Sep/23 13:03
• Resolved: 25/Jan/23 21:19

Description

As discussed on CASSANDRA-18181, recently we see builds aborted as python3 ./scripts/gen-nodetool-docs.py is too slow.

According to brandon.williams most of the time in the script is spent in create_adoc, which is serially forking nodetool help for every command to gather it.

CC Anthony Grasso

Issue Links

• Discovered while testing: CASSANDRA-18181 Fix tests post JDK-8210522 (rewrite reflection of "modifiers" field)