[HBASE-21116] nightly job should do API compatibility report

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: API, community
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Sean Busbey
• Created: 24/Aug/18 21:23
• Updated: 24/Aug/18 21:26

Description

we should add running the API compatibility check (dev-support/checkcompatibility.py) to our nightly tests.

• in master check against head of prior major release
• in major release branch (e.g. branch-2) check against head of prior minor release
• in minor release branch (e.g. branch-2.0) check against prior maintenance release
• update release docs to suggest RM update above after making a release.