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Release process
Last updated Oct 15, 2018.

Introduction This document covers the release process. We distinguish between two types of releases: testing : alpha/beta/release-candidate releases frequent releases, small to medium testing durations ...

_Sidebar
Last updated Sep 24, 2018.

Home Jargon Roadmap Git commit messages Issue labels Working as reviewer Release Process Building and running tests Code Coverage Continuous Integration TeamCity Bors merge bot Nightly tests Large Scale ...

Nikhil's rules of thumb
Last updated Sep 24, 2018.

Any problem that mentions “context deadline exceeded” is not the same as any other problem that mentions “context deadline exceeded.” On macOS, your system headers and libraries are broken in arbitrary ...

Roadmap
Last updated Aug 20, 2018.

Please note that the roadmap is intended to provide high-level visibility into the short-term direction of the product. This can change at any time. 2.1 Product Roadmap Highlights Below you'll find ...

Benchmarking RocksDB
Last updated Jun 14, 2018.

To benchmark RocksDB outside of CockroachDB, use upstream's db_bench tool. To build it, run: $ git clone https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb.git $ cd rocksdb $ make -jNCPUS db_bench DEBUG_LEVEL=0 If ...

Building and running tests
Last updated May 4, 2018.

To build and run tests, just run make To run just presubmit checks ( golint etc): make check Running the tests for a package: make test PKG=./sql Verbose test output: make test PKG=./sql TESTFLAGS='-v' ...

Issue labels
Last updated Apr 30, 2018.

The following is a complete list of the label groups. Each group itself might not be complete - for example, the code areas under the Area label category may change over time, and are not all represented ...

Large Scale Testing
Last updated Apr 21, 2018.

workload Workload refers both to the package and the tool. The package is built around an abstraction, called Generator , and the tool has various bits for working with generators. Generator is abstraction ...

Bors merge bot
Last updated Apr 11, 2018.

Overview To enable true continuous integration, we merge pull requests using a bot. Craig is that bot, an instance of bors-ng . He runs the build for approved PRs as if they were merged, and merges them ...

pprof
Last updated Apr 3, 2018.

Profiling Cockroach for fun and profit. go tool pprof is a profiling tool built into Go. It is useful for understanding hotspots in your code. One can profile a running cockroach binary, or a specific ...

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