Community Meeting 2017 01 18

Gluster Community Meeting

• Date : 2017-01-18
• Host : kshlm
• Logs :
  • Minutes: https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/gluster-meeting/2017-01-18/gluster_community_meeting_2017-01-18.2017-01-18-15.00.html
  • Minutes (text): https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/gluster-meeting/2017-01-18/gluster_community_meeting_2017-01-18.2017-01-18-15.00.txt
  • Log: https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/gluster-meeting/2017-01-18/gluster_community_meeting_2017-01-18.2017-01-18-15.00.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.

• Regression test suite hardening
  • or Changes to testing
  • Discussions happened on the topic of reducing test runtime
  • [vbellur] next steps regarding this is not clear
  • [rastar] nigelb is working on reducing test runtime
  • [rastar] fstat.gluster.org being updated to get stats by release
  • [jdarcy & rastar] tests parallelization is being worked on, using containers possibly
  • [jdarcy] I have a list of bad tests
  • https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/wiki/Test-Clean-Up has more details
  • [vbellur] Test-Clean-up looks good
  • [rastar] additional proposals
    • blocker test bugs for 3.10
    • stop merges to modules with known bad tests over a watermark
  • [vbellur] Need to discuss blocker test bugs for 3.10
    • [rastar] will start a conversation
• Upcoming conference attendence
  • Lots of people in FOSDEM. Stand + Storage Devroom
  • Lots of people in DevConf
  • Some going to FAST
  • At least one person at Scale

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 last meeting

• None

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
    • ppai finished exploring/prototyping SunRPC for Go.
    • ppai is exploring multiplexing services onto a single port
    • kshlm is preparing his presentation for FOSDEM.

GlusterFS 3.10

• Maintainers : shyam, kkeithley, rtalur
• Next release : 3.10.0
  • Target date: February 14, 2017
• Release tracker : https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/milestone/1
• Updates:
  • Branching to be done today (i.e 18th Jan)
  • Some exceptions are noted for features that will be backported and land in 3.10 post the branching, within mostly a week of branching
    • gfapi statedump support
    • Brick multiplexing
    • Trash can directory creation
    • DHT rebalance estimation
    • some remaining storhaug work

GlusterFS 3.9

• Maintainers : pranithk, aravindavk, dblack
• Current release : 3.9.1
  • Release date: 20 December 2016
  • actual release date 17 Jan 2017
• Next release : 3.9.2
  • Release date : 20 Feb 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-3.9.1&hide_resolved=1
• Updates:
  • 3.9.1 has been tagged
  • Packages have been built and are on d.g.o
    • LATEST symlink has been moved
    • CentOS Storage SIG will available soon
  • Release announcement https://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2017-January/051931.html

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-3.8.8
• Open bugs : https://bugzilla.redhat.com/showdependencytree.cgi?maxdepth=2&id=glusterfs-3.8.8&hide_resolved=1
• Updates:
  • GlusterFS-3.8.8 has been released
    • https://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2017-January/029695.html
    • http://blog.nixpanic.net/2017/01/gluster-388-ltm-update.html

GlusterFS 3.7

• Maintainers : kshlm, samikshan
• Current release : 3.7.19
• Next release : 3.7.20
  • Release date : 30 January 2017
• Tracker bug : https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=glusterfs-3.7.20
• Open bugs : https://bugzilla.redhat.com/showdependencytree.cgi?maxdepth=2&id=glusterfs-3.7.20&hide_resolved=1
• Updates:
  • Nothing to add. On target for 30 Jan.

Related projects and efforts

Community Infra

• None

Samba

• None

Ganesha

• nothing to report. work on 2.5 continues

Storhaug HA

• preliminary steps in master and release-3.10. For now ganesha HA is broken.

Containers

• Started work in Heketi for remove device and remove node support
• Work in progress: tool to integrate tcmu and gluster

Testing

• Glusto tests now work upstream fully
  • https://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2017-January/051924.html

Others

• None

Announcements

New announcements

• None

Regular announcements

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