[MESOS-7941] Send TASK_STARTING status from built-in executors

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.5.0
• Component/s: executor
• Labels: executor executors
• Sprint: Mesosphere Sprint 65, Mesosphere Sprint 66
• Story Points: 12
• Assignee: Benno Evers
• Reporter: Benno Evers
• Shepherd: Alex R
• Created: 06/Sep/17 14:52
• Updated: 27/Mar/18 11:39
• Resolved: 18/Oct/17 19:44

Description

All executors have the option to send out a TASK_STARTING status update to signal to the scheduler that they received the command to launch the task.

It would be good if our built-in executors would do this, for reasons laid out in https://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/mesos-dev/201708.mbox/%3CCA%2B9TLTzkEVM0CKvY%2B%3D0%3DwjrN6hYFAt0401Y7b8tysDWx1WZzdw%40mail.gmail.com%3E

This will also fix MESOS-6790.

Issue Links

• relates to: MESOS-8136 Update XFS isolator tests to handle TASK_STARTING.