Community Meeting 2017 02 15

Gluster Community Meeting

• Date : 2017-02-15
• Host : kshlm
• Logs :
  • Minutes: https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/gluster-meeting/2017-02-15/community_meeting_2017-02-15.2017-02-15-15.01.html
  • Minutes (text): https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/gluster-meeting/2017-02-15/community_meeting_2017-02-15.2017-02-15-15.01.txt
  • Log: https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/gluster-meeting/2017-02-15/community_meeting_2017-02-15.2017-02-15-15.01.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.

• Reminder: Last week before 3.10 release
  • Post your test results
  • Post any blocker bugs ASAP, so that we can build RC1
  • Check the release notes if you have any features delivered in this release
  • Package maintainers gear up for RC1 (if any gear up is needed)
• glusterfs-3.8.9 has been tagged, release (hopefully) later today
  • Kaleb is on holidays, other packagers for community .rpm and .deb?
  • ndevos can take care of the Fedora packages
  • debs and rpms on download.gluster.org need help
  • no documentation exists, and not clear that required permissions can be obtained without kkeithley
  • nigelb will begin documenting the process when kkeithley is back
    • helps with automating everything
  • 3.8.9 packages for dependent distros delayed till kkeithely returns
    • 3.8.9 will be announced later today as planned
  • We need to fix this problem before the march release cycle
    • Get a rotating set of packagers who know how to build the packages
    • Probably have the release-maintainers package
      • Too much work to package for all distributions
  • What all pacakges do we build?
    • https://gluster.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Install-Guide/Community_Packages/
      • This page is not informative enough
      • Docs need fixing
        • Docs hackday in Malta?
• Infra Outage in March
  • Details still being finalized
    • Possibly around March 14th for 72h.
  • RH Community Cage is being moved to a different DC.
  • review.g.o, build.g.o, fstat.g.o, centos-ci will be offline
    • list of servers/VM in the cage: https://github.com/gluster/gluster.org_ansible_configuration/blob/master/hosts#L27

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.
  • No updates
• shyam will send out a note on 3.10 deadlines and get someone in BLR to nag in person.
  • Done.

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:
    • FOSDEM 2017 presentation - https://fosdem.org/2017/schedule/event/glusterd2/
    • Prashanth is refactoring some of the sunrpc code
    • Aravinda started a discussion and a POC around plugins
      • https://github.com/gluster/glusterd2/pull/241

GlusterFS 3.10

• Maintainers : shyam, kkeithley, rtalur
• Next release : 3.10.0
  • Target date: February 21, 2017
• Release tracker : https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/milestone/1
• Updates:
  • Awaiting test updates to github issues
    • Link to testing issues: http://bit.ly/2kDCR8M
  • Awaiting final release blocker fixes
    • Tracker: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1416031
  • Merge pending dashboard:
    • http://bit.ly/2ky6VPI

GlusterFS 3.9

• Maintainers : pranithk, aravindavk, dblack
• Current release : 3.9.1
• Next release : 3.9.2
  • Release date : 20 February 2017 (if 3.10 hasn't shipped by then)
• Tracker bug : https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=glusterfs-3.9.2
• Open bugs : https://bugzilla.redhat.com/showdependencytree.cgi?maxdepth=2&id=glusterfs-3.9.2&hide_resolved=1
• Roadmap : https://www.gluster.org/community/roadmap/3.9/
• Updates:
  • No updates

GlusterFS 3.8

• Maintainers : ndevos, jiffin
• Current release : 3.8.8
• Next release : 3.8.9
  • Release date : 10 February 2017
• Tracker bug : https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=glusterfs-3.8.9
• Open bugs : https://bugzilla.redhat.com/showdependencytree.cgi?maxdepth=2&id=glusterfs-3.8.9&hide_resolved=1
• Updates:
  • 3.8.9 has been tagged
  • Announcement pending

GlusterFS 3.7

• Maintainers : kshlm, samikshan
• Current release : 3.7.20
• Next release : EOL
• Updates:
  • Still on track to EOL with 3.10 release

Related projects and efforts

Community Infra

• No updates

Samba

• No updates

Ganesha

• No updates

Containers

• No updates

Testing

• No updates

Others

• No updates

Announcements

New announcements

• None

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

---

• 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