[Gluster-devel] Release of 3.5.1 alpha/rc slipping

[Niels de Vos]

At last week's community meeting we tentatively agreed on today —
May 14th — as the date we would release 3.5.1alpha.

There are several bugs attached to the blocker for glusterfs-3.5.1 [1].  
Not all of them have either ...

- ... received patches (mostly documentation additions from features, 
  carried over from the 3.5.0 release), these are in NEW status
- ... do not have a corresponding patch merged in master, these have 
  a depends-on bug that is not in MODIFIED status

The dependency tree shows the main tracker bug on top, the 1st level of 
indention are the bugs that need to be resolved for 3.5.1, and any 
deeper level indicates that the 3.5.1 bug has a dependency on a bug in 
the master branch.

The most urgent bug that needs to be resolved for a 3.5.1 release would 
be bug 1089054, which depends on bug 1038391 for the master branch.  
This problem makes it more difficult for distributions to package the 
release, some files are missing in the 'make dist' tarball and need to 
be regenerated. I have sent http://review.gluster.org/7714 for review, 
but it seems to have failed regression testing (rpmbuild). I am unsure 
why, local builds pass fine. I'd appreciate it if anyone can have a look 
at it. (The fact that regression testing is very slow, and the long 
queue in Jenkins does not help.)

I'd like to make an alpha or release-candidate available later this 
week, assuming that bug 1089054 gets resolved. The documentation 
additions have been skipped the last release too already, and there is 
no publicly available rendered documentation site available, making 
end-user documentation close to unusable anyway.

Comments, ideas and further discussion on this topic is very welcome.  
Please voice your opinions and respond to this email, or let yourself be 
heard in the community meeting planned for later today.

Thanks,
Niels


¹ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/showdependencytree.cgi?hide_resolved=0&id=glusterfs-3.5.1
² http://review.gluster.org/#/q/project:glusterfs+branch:release-3.5+status:open+NOT+topic:rfc,n,z