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+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+# contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+# this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+# The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+# (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+# the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+on:
+  push:
+    paths-ignore:
+      - ".gitignore"
+    branches:
+      - "*"
+  pull_request:
+    paths-ignore:
+      - ".gitignore"
+    branches:
+      - "*"
+
+jobs:
+  build:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    strategy:
+      matrix:
+        java: [ 8 ]
+      fail-fast: false
+    name: CI - Java ${{ matrix.java }}
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+      - name: "Setup Java"
+        uses: actions/setup-java@v1
+        with:
+          java-version: ${{ matrix.java }}
+      - name: "Build Oozie"
+        run: mvn clean compile
+      - name: "Test Oozie"
+        run: mvn test