<div dir="ltr">Hi All,<div><br></div><div>First of all, happy new year 2018! Hope all of your wishes come true this year, and hope you will have time for contributing to Gluster Project this year too :-)</div><div><br></div><div>As a contributor and one of the maintainers of the project I would like to propose below plans for Gluster Project, and please share your feedback, and comments on them.</div><div><br></div><div><ul style="font-size:12.8px"><li style="margin-left:15px"><b>Improved Automation to reduce the process burden</b></li></ul><div style="font-size:12.8px">We started some effort in this direction already. The thought process is captured here: <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AFkZmRRDXRxs21GnGauieIyiIiRZ-nTEW8CPi7Gbp3g/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/<wbr>document/d/<wbr>1AFkZmRRDXRxs21GnGauieIyiIiRZ-<wbr>nTEW8CPi7Gbp3g/edit?usp=<wbr>sharing</a></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">We need your help to share experience from other projects, and help to automate most of it.</div><ul style="font-size:12.8px"><li style="margin-left:15px"><b>Use case driven documentation</b></li></ul><div style="font-size:12.8px">Will be an on-going effort, but instead of focusing on more options, different way of doing things, we will try to keep one very well tested way in documentation.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">All other options, hacks etc will be moved into 'Advanced' section. </div><ul style="font-size:12.8px"><li style="margin-left:15px"><b>Participation, meetups in more conferences and events, across the globe.</b></li></ul><div style="font-size:12.8px">We will try to participate in more events, so users can interact with more developers, and express their concerns, suggestions, discuss ideas etc.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">We will be open to hear both good and bad things about project, so we can continue good things, and fix the things which are not going well. Do let us know about some events where you would like to see some of the developers, so we can see what can be done to arrange their travel.</div><ul style="font-size:12.8px"><li style="margin-left:15px"><b>Focus on Integrations with other projects/products.</b></li></ul><div style="font-size:12.8px">In storage, it is better to be 100% (or close to it) fit for some use cases / few use cases, instead of trying to be good for everyone and solving around 90% issues in generic use-case. Hence we will try to get complete at certain use cases while continuing to get better overall.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">We will be happy to get contribution in this direction, and also will work on making sure project is integration friendly. We will take integration issues with priority, and would work with different communities to get this effort move on properly.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><ul><li style="margin-left:15px"><b>Continue with stable release cycles</b></li></ul><div>Since last 4-5 releases, we have been sticking to timelines. We promise to keep this going. We will make Gluster 4.0 happen, and by 4.1 release, would like to see most of the community starts thinking about migration to 4.x versions.</div></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">----</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">We are also working on many more 'tasks' in the meantime. If you need anything, feel free to send an email, and/or raise an issue in github.</div></div><div><br></div><div>Once again, Wish you all happy new year 2018!</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Amar Tumballi (amarts)<br></div></div></div></div></div>
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