[HBASE-18855] rewrite netty so to have proper packages

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Not A Problem
• Fix Version/s: thirdparty-2.0.0
• Component/s: thirdparty
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Mike Drob
• Created: 20/Sep/17 16:16
• Updated: 19/Dec/17 17:06
• Resolved: 19/Dec/17 17:06

Description

We documented the workaround for folks using surefire needing to set a system property otherwise mini cluster won't start in HBASE-18849, but maybe we can do better.

Can we rewrite the SO? Or patch the java code to use the correct value instead of checking a system property for it? It should be ok to have a patch to hardcode this sine we're telling folks to use a static value anyway.

hbase-thirdparty already has mechanisms for patching the source libs (ref. protobuf) so the mechanics shouldn't be too complex.