Community Meeting 2016 11 23

Gluster Community Meeting

• Date : 2016-11-23
• Host : kshlm
• Logs :
  • Minutes: https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/gluster-meeting/2016-11-23/weekly_community_meeting_2016-11-23.2016-11-23-12.01.html
  • Minutes (text): https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/gluster-meeting/2016-11-23/weekly_community_meeting_2016-11-23.2016-11-23-12.01.txt
  • Log: https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/gluster-meeting/2016-11-23/weekly_community_meeting_2016-11-23.2016-11-23-12.01.log.html

General information

• Location : #gluster-meeting on Freenode (webchat)
• Time : For meetings 30th March (2016) and later
  • 17:30  IST (Bangalore, etc.)
  • 14:00 CEST (Amsterdam, etc.)
  • 13:00 BST (UK)
  • 12:00  UTC
  • 8:00 AM US/Canada EDT
  • 5:00 AM US/Canada PDT
  • or in your local shell/terminal: date -d "12:00 UTC"
• Instructions to hosts
  • start with #startmeeting Gluster community weekly meeting
  • use #topic, #action, #info and #agreed commands to make notes in the minutes
  • end the meeting with #endmeeting
  • when done, paste the links to the logs in this etherpad
  • archive this etherpad, copy the etherpad contents as is (ie. markdown) and create a new wiki with the markdown content and name it "Community Meeting YYYY-MM-DD"
  • create the next weeks agenda by copying the template (in markdown)
  • update the gluster-users and gluster-dev mailing lists with the meeting minutes, and also share the link to next weeks agenda

Topics of Discussion

Next weeks meeting host

• kshlm

Open floor

• Discuss feedback on new format meetings
  • Asked for feedback on mailing lists
    • https://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2016-November/051543.html
  • Universal +1 for continuing the format
  • Discuss participation issues in January
• What's happening with 3.9?
  • When is it going to be announced?
    • Later today
  • Is anything pending?
    • Upgrade guide and release-notes in RTD
    • Packaging pending
      • Ganesha for Centos-6
• How's the etherpad alternative?
  • Missing author colors, author names without sign-in
  • Pretty!
  • Continue for the next week.
• 3.10
  • Shyam's announcement of schedule
    • https://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2016-November/051584.html
  • Release will be tracked using Github projects and issues
    • Issues need to be filed in GH
    • Shyam will set a date for submission of 3.10 issue

Updates

Note : Updates will not be discussed during meetings. Any important or noteworthy update will be announced at the end of the meeting

Releases

GlusterFS 4.0

• Tracker bug : https://bugzilla.redhat.com/showdependencytree.cgi?id=glusterfs-4.0
• Roadmap : https://www.gluster.org/community/roadmap/4.0/
• Updates:
  • GD2
    • New release! https://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2016-November/051547.html
  • Brick multiplexing
    • https://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2016-November/051588.html
  • Add updates here

GlusterFS 3.9

• Maintainers : pranithk, aravindavk, dblack
• Current release : 3.9.0rc2
• Next release : 3.9.0
  • Release date : End of Sept 2016
• Tracker bug : https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=glusterfs-3.9.0
• Open bugs : https://bugzilla.redhat.com/showdependencytree.cgi?maxdepth=2&id=glusterfs-3.9.0&hide_resolved=1
• Roadmap : https://www.gluster.org/community/roadmap/3.9/
• Updates:
  • [ndevos] packages (+deps) are being built for the CentOS Storage SIG, almost ready

GlusterFS 3.8

• Maintainers : ndevos, jiffin
• Current release : 3.8.5
• Next release : 3.8.6
  • Release date : 10 November 2016 - probably Wednesday 23
• Tracker bug : https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=glusterfs-3.8.6
• Open bugs : https://bugzilla.redhat.com/showdependencytree.cgi?maxdepth=2&id=glusterfs-3.8.6&hide_resolved=1
• Updates:
  • 3.8.6 is expected to be tagged later today

GlusterFS 3.7

• Maintainers : kshlm, samikshan
• Current release : 3.7.17
• Next release : 3.7.18
  • Release date : 30 November 2016
• Tracker bug : https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=glusterfs-3.7.18
• Open bugs : https://bugzilla.redhat.com/showdependencytree.cgi?maxdepth=2&id=glusterfs-3.7.18&hide_resolved=1
• Updates:
  • v3.7.17 tagging mistake has been corrected
    • https://www.gluster.org/pipermail/maintainers/2016-November/001746.html

Related projects and efforts

Community Infra

• [nigelb] Update on fstat.gluster.org
  • https://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2016-November/051575.html
• [nigelb] Gerrit now uses an external postgresql instance.
• [nigelb] Migration to new Centos 7 machine re-scheduled for 17th Dec. See migration plan for full details.
• [nigelb] Two more Centos CI jobs converted to JJB.

Samba

• None provided

Ganesha

• nfs-ganesha-2.4.1 will be available in the CentOS Storage SIG for the 3.9 Gluster repos

Containers

• None provided

Testing

• Smoke test failures are fixed thanks to Poornima
• [nigelb] Glusto tests are still failing. I could use some help for Samba as well as NFS issues.

Others

• Update on GD-1.0 https://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2016-November/051586.html
• Shyam announced the 3.10 release schedule https://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2016-November/051584.html
• Multiplexing http://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2016-November/051588.html
• Anything that doesn't belong to any above categories, add updates here

Action Items from last week

• kshlm will ask for feedback on the trial run of the new meeting format
  • Done.
  • https://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2016-November/051543.html
• kshlm to send out an email about Etherpad+Wiki after it's done for the first time
  • Not done. I need to do this.

Announcements

New announcements

• 3.8.6 will be tagged later today
• 3.9 will be announced later today
• 3.10 development cycle has begun

Regular announcements

• If you're attending any event/conference please add the event and yourselves to Gluster attendance of events: http://www.gluster.org/events (replaces https://public.pad.fsfe.org/p/gluster-events)
• Put (even minor) interesting topics on https://public.pad.fsfe.org/p/gluster-weekly-news
• Remember to add your updates to the next meetings agenda.