Great, @lewismc!

If the Jenkins job becomes a regular test for Nutch, or even only for release candidates: we should transfer this repository to the ASF organization.

What do you think?

For me that's fine. If I need to test any specific things, it's easy to fork it into my personal account.

Hi @sebastian-nagel , I added the smoke tests Jenkins job badge to the apache/nutch#869 because I was testing the PR for regressions as a result of removing

  @Override
  protected void finalize() throws Throwable {
    shutDown();
  }

A short-term goal (post review and hopefully merge of the above PR) is to then implement NUTCH-3158. This would mean for issues such as the following, we would have another layer of comprehensive CI testing in place.

• Major dependency upgrades e.g. Hadoop, Tika, etc.
• Major code refactoring such as removal of legacy code
• ...etc

If you wish to migrate it to the Apache Nutch project then I would support that but the choice is entirely yours. Thanks.

If you wish to migrate it to the Apache Nutch project

Yes, sure. Need to figure out how this is done. Likely a request to infra?

Hi @sebastian-nagel , I'll link this here as well, as it concerns smoke testing
apache/bigtop#1380
Maybe we should simply build this entire project into Bigtop?
If you wish to transfer it to Apache Nutch PMC we can do that via https://incubator.apache.org/ip-clearance/