Community Meeting 2017 10 11

Gluster Community Meeting

• Date :2017-10-11
• Host : kshlm
• Logs :
  • Minutes: https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/gluster-meeting/2017-10-11/gluster_community_meeting_2017-10-11.2017-10-11-15.03.html
  • Minutes (text): https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/gluster-meeting/2017-10-11/gluster_community_meeting_2017-10-11.2017-10-11-15.03.txt
  • Log: https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/gluster-meeting/2017-10-11/gluster_community_meeting_2017-10-11.2017-10-11-15.03.log.html

General information

• Location : #gluster-meeting on Freenode (webchat)
• Time :
  • 15:00 UTC
  • or in your local shell/terminal: date -d "15:00 UTC"

NOTE: Instructions for meeting hosts are at the end of this page.

Topics of Discussion

The meeting is an open floor, open for discussion of any topic entered below.

• New Community Issue Queue: https://github.com/gluster/community/issues
  • Of particular note: community input needed for events strategy for next year, https://github.com/gluster/community/issues/7
  • https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10Kl7pUfluoDHMqtmqUfacvCwq-g10iPT9KsK6ZjOQCI/edit?usp=sharing - Event Scoring Spreadsheet: where should we be?
• Gluster Summit Travel Coordinating:
  • https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Jde-5XNc0q4a8bW8-OmLC2w_jiPg-e53ssR4wanIhFk/edit?usp=drive_web
• Add topics as new bullet points here

Next edition's meeting host

• kshlm

Updates

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

Action Items from the last meeting

• JoeJulian to invite Harsha to next meeting to discuss Minio
• bulde/nigelb will start the survey to collect info on applications used with gluster (will take time)

Releases

GlusterFS 4.0

• Maintainers: Shyam, TBD
• Schedule (proposed):
  • Feature proposal end date: TBD
  • Branching: Dec-15-2017 (tentative)
  • Release: Jan-30-2017
  • Minor release updates: (target) 20th of each month
• Visit github lane "Release 4.0" for planned features
• Updates:
  • GD2
    • Many new CLI commands added
    • Initial TLS support enabled for ReST
    • New format for volume create request under discussion
      • https://github.com/gluster/glusterd2/issues/388
      • Send volume structure directly to GD2, instead of just a list of bricks.
    • Volgen works and builds glusterfsd consumable volfiles.
      • Need to figure out auth options for protocol/server before mounts can work
      • https://github.com/gluster/glusterd2/pull/364
  • RIO status
    • Planned early tech preview with 4.0, exact scope to be clarified in the github (issue)[https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/243] soon
  • Add updates here

GlusterFS 3.13

• Maintainers: Shyam
• Schedule:
  • ENDED: Feature proposal end date: Sep-22-2017
  • UPCOMING: Branching: Oct-16-2017
  • Release: Nov-30-2017
  • Minor release updates: (target) 20th of each month
• Visit github lane "Release 3.13" for planned features

GlusterFS 3.12 next minor update

• Next update: (due) October, 10th 2017
• Maintainers: shyam, jiffin
• Blocker tracker: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=glusterfs-3.12.2

3.10 next minor update

• Next update: October, 30th 2017
• Maintainers: Shyam, Talur, Kaleb
• Blocker tracker: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=glusterfs-3.10.7

Related projects and efforts

Community Infra

• Add updates here

Samba

• Add updates here

Ganesha

• Add updates here

Containers

• Add updates here

Testing

• Add updates here

Others

• Anything that doesn't belong to any above categories, add updates here

Announcements

New announcements

• Add anything you want to announce to the community here

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/updates on https://bit.ly/gluster-community-meetings

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• 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