Community meeting 2017 03 15

Gluster Community Meeting

• Date : 2017-03-15
• Host : kshlm,rafi,ndevos,vbellur
• Logs :
  • Minutes: https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/gluster-meeting/2017-03-15/gluster_community_meeting_2017-03-15.2017-03-15-15.01.html
  • Minutes (text): https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/gluster-meeting/2017-03-15/gluster_community_meeting_2017-03-15.2017-03-15-15.01.txt
  • Log: https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/gluster-meeting/2017-03-15/gluster_community_meeting_2017-03-15.2017-03-15-15.01.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.

• Old pending reviews. (nigelb)
  • There's quite a few old patches that can be abandoned.
  • Abandoned all patches older than 90 days from today.
  • If someone wants to re-open them, they're welcome to.
  • Reduce the noise on the dashboards and help us pick up old patches.
• Demo on 'howto gluster-block' (pkalever)
  • Stream at https://bluejeans.com/102845329/
  • slides https://redhat.slides.com/pkalever/howto-gluster-block
  • followed by live demo

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

• jdarcy will work with nigelb to make the infra for reverts easier
• nigelb will document kkeithleys build process for glusterfs packages
• shyam to notify devel list about the backport whine job and gather feedback
• nigelb will implement the backports whine job after feedback is obtained
• amye to work on revised maintainers draft with vbellur to get out for next maintainer's meeting. We'll approve it 'formally' there, see how it works for 3.11.

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
    • Volume status call now gives correct brick status information
      • https://github.com/gluster/glusterd2/pull/282
    • Support added for portless hostnames for brick names during volume create
      • https://github.com/gluster/glusterd2/pull/281
    • Imported mgmt into GD2, to allow @purpleidea to show how we could use mgmt.
      • https://github.com/gluster/glusterd2/pull/247
    • Added logfile support to optionally redirect logs from stderr to a file
      • https://github.com/gluster/glusterd2/pull/279
    • We want to add a quick start guide for new developers
      • https://github.com/gluster/glusterd2/issues/283

GlusterFS 3.11

• Maintainers: shyam, TBD
• Release: May 30th, 2017
  • Branching: April 27th, 2017
• 3.11 Main focus areas
  • Testing improvements in Gluster
  • Merge all (or as much as possible) Facebook patches into master, and hence into release 3.11
  • We will still retain features that slipped 3.10 and hence were moved to 3.11
• Release Scope: https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/projects/1

GlusterFS 3.10

• Maintainers : shyam, kkeithley, rtalur
• Current release : 3.10.0
• Next release : 3.10.1
  • Target date: March 30, 2017
  • Bug tracker: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?glusterfs-3.10.1
• Updates:
  • Add updates here

GlusterFS 3.8

• Maintainers : ndevos, jiffin
• Current release : 3.8.9
• Next release : 3.8.10
  • Release date : 10 March 2017
• Tracker bug : https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=glusterfs-3.8.10
• Open bugs : https://bugzilla.redhat.com/showdependencytree.cgi?maxdepth=2&id=glusterfs-3.8.10&hide_resolved=1
• Updates:
  • Add updates here

Related projects and efforts

Community Infra

• DC Migration seems to have gone off mostly well.
• All production critical systems are back online.

Samba

• None

Ganesha

• None

Containers

• None

Testing

• None

Others

• Major is working on snapshots plugin to support brtfs file system

Announcements

New announcements

• None

Regular announcements

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• Instructions to hosts
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