<div dir="ltr">Hi All,<div><br></div><div>We successfully had our Release-8 planning meeting in APAC timezone. Meeting minutes available here - <a href="https://hackmd.io/YB60uRCMQRC90xhNt4r6gA">https://hackmd.io/YB60uRCMQRC90xhNt4r6gA</a></div><div><br></div><div>It was well represented by many component maintainers and many developers looked enthusiastic to make sure we have a good Release-8 out.</div><div><br></div><div>I agreed to setup another Planning meeting for NA/EMEA friendly hours in coming week, so we can continue with development.</div><div><br></div><div>As the above hackmd page would see modification with more content for next week, I am posting the meeting minutes as part of this email itself.</div><div><br></div><div>TL;DR;</div><div>-----</div><div><br></div><div><h2 class="gmail-part" id="gmail-Goal" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,&quot;Segoe UI&quot;,&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Helvetica,Roboto,Arial,sans-serif,&quot;Apple Color Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;;line-height:1.25;color:rgb(51,51,51);margin-top:24px;margin-bottom:16px;padding-bottom:0.3em;border-bottom:1px solid rgb(238,238,238);letter-spacing:0.35px">Goal</h2><p class="gmail-part" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,&quot;Segoe UI&quot;,&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Helvetica,Roboto,Arial,sans-serif,&quot;Apple Color Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;;font-size:16px;letter-spacing:0.35px">A release of Gluster, which is stable, and provides the functionality to users, as promised in the documentation. This release also should be a stepping stone for<a href="https://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2019-September/056606.html"> GlusterX goal</a></p><h3 class="gmail-part" id="gmail-References" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,&quot;Segoe UI&quot;,&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Helvetica,Roboto,Arial,sans-serif,&quot;Apple Color Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;;line-height:1.25;color:rgb(51,51,51);margin-top:24px;margin-bottom:16px;font-size:1.25em;letter-spacing:0.35px"><span class="gmail-octicon gmail-octicon-link" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:1;font-family:octicons;display:inline-block;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:middle"></span>References</h3><ul class="gmail-part" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;padding-left:2em;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,&quot;Segoe UI&quot;,&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Helvetica,Roboto,Arial,sans-serif,&quot;Apple Color Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;;font-size:16px;letter-spacing:0.35px"><li class="gmail-" style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2019-November/056709.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(51,122,183);text-decoration-line:none">https://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2019-November/056709.html</a></li><li class="gmail-" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-top:0.25em"><a href="https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/milestone/10" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(51,122,183);text-decoration-line:none">https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/milestone/10</a></li></ul><h2 class="gmail-part" id="gmail-Timeline" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,&quot;Segoe UI&quot;,&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Helvetica,Roboto,Arial,sans-serif,&quot;Apple Color Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;;line-height:1.25;color:rgb(51,51,51);margin-top:24px;margin-bottom:16px;padding-bottom:0.3em;border-bottom:1px solid rgb(238,238,238);letter-spacing:0.35px"><span class="gmail-octicon gmail-octicon-link" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:1;font-family:octicons;display:inline-block;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:middle"></span>Timeline</h2><p class="gmail-part" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,&quot;Segoe UI&quot;,&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Helvetica,Roboto,Arial,sans-serif,&quot;Apple Color Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;;font-size:16px;letter-spacing:0.35px">GA- April 15th, 2020.<br style="box-sizing:border-box">RC - 31st March, 2020.<br style="box-sizing:border-box">beta - 2nd March, 2020.<br style="box-sizing:border-box">Branching - 10th March, 2020.</p><h2 class="gmail-part" id="gmail-What-is-targetted-" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:-app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padding-left:2em"><li class="gmail-" style="box-sizing:border-box">Structured logging <a href="https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/657" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(51,122,183);text-decoration-line:none">Issue #657</a> <small style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:13.6px"><span class="gmail-fa gmail-fa-user" style="box-sizing:border-box;display:inline-block;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:1;font-family:FontAwesome;font-size:inherit"></span> Yati P</small></li></ul></li><li class="gmail-" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-top:0.25em"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:16px 0px">Observability :</p><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;padding-left:2em"><li class="gmail-" style="box-sizing:border-box">More documentation on how to use prometheus or other tools for Monitoring.</li><li class="gmail-" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-top:0.25em"><a href="https://github.com/gluster/gstatus" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(51,122,183);text-decoration-line:none">gstatus</a> Release 8 compatibility</li></ul></li><li class="gmail-" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-top:0.25em"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:16px 0px">Maintainability:</p><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;padding-left:2em"><li class="gmail-" style="box-sizing:border-box">Code cleanup (More static functions etc)</li><li class="gmail-" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-top:0.25em">Function scope, extern function reduction etc</li><li class="gmail-" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-top:0.25em">Locked section reduction</li></ul></li><li class="gmail-" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-top:0.25em"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:16px 0px">New Idea Proposals:</p><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;padding-left:2em"><li class="gmail-" style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/265" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(51,122,183);text-decoration-line:none">vscan xlator</a></li><li class="gmail-" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-top:0.25em">Add more [if you have any]</li></ul></li></ul><h3 class="gmail-part" id="gmail-Bugs--Issues" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,&quot;Segoe UI&quot;,&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Helvetica,Roboto,Arial,sans-serif,&quot;Apple Color Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;;line-height:1.25;color:rgb(51,51,51);margin-top:24px;margin-bottom:16px;font-size:1.25em;letter-spacing:0.35px"><span class="gmail-octicon gmail-octicon-link" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:1;font-family:octicons;display:inline-block;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:middle"></span>Bugs / Issues</h3><p class="gmail-part" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,&quot;Segoe UI&quot;,&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Helvetica,Roboto,Arial,sans-serif,&quot;Apple Color Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;;font-size:16px;letter-spacing:0.35px">A good goal is to have less than 200 bugs (&lt;10% high / urgent severity), and total issues open reduced to less than 200 too.</p><p class="gmail-part" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,&quot;Segoe UI&quot;,&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Helvetica,Roboto,Arial,sans-serif,&quot;Apple Color Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;;font-size:16px;letter-spacing:0.35px">Current Status:</p><p class="gmail-part" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,&quot;Segoe UI&quot;,&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Helvetica,Roboto,Arial,sans-serif,&quot;Apple Color Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;;font-size:16px;letter-spacing:0.35px">|<a href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/report.cgi?x_axis_field=bug_status&amp;y_axis_field=component&amp;z_axis_field=&amp;no_redirect=1&amp;query_format=report-table&amp;bug_status=__open__&amp;format=table&amp;action=wrap&amp;product=GlusterFS" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(51,122,183);text-decoration-line:none">Total Bugs</a> | 354 |<br style="box-sizing:border-box">|<a href="https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(51,122,183);text-decoration-line:none">Github issues</a> | 434 |</p><ul class="gmail-part" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;padding-left:2em;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,&quot;Segoe UI&quot;,&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Helvetica,Roboto,Arial,sans-serif,&quot;Apple Color Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;;font-size:16px;letter-spacing:0.35px"><li class="gmail-" style="box-sizing:border-box">Bugs to target for Release-8<ul style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;padding-left:2em"><li class="gmail-" style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1793042" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(51,122,183);text-decoration-line:none">https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1793042</a> - WORM/write-behind.</li></ul></li></ul><h4 class="gmail-part" id="gmail-How-can-we-reduce-these" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,&quot;Segoe UI&quot;,&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Helvetica,Roboto,Arial,sans-serif,&quot;Apple Color Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;;line-height:1.25;color:rgb(51,51,51);margin-top:24px;margin-bottom:16px;font-size:16px;letter-spacing:0.35px"><span class="gmail-octicon gmail-octicon-link" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:1;font-family:octicons;display:inline-block;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:middle"></span>How can we reduce these?</h4><ul class="gmail-part" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;padding-left:2em;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,&quot;Segoe UI&quot;,&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Helvetica,Roboto,Arial,sans-serif,&quot;Apple Color Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;;font-size:16px;letter-spacing:0.35px"><li class="gmail-" style="box-sizing:border-box"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:16px 0px"><a href="https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+sort%3Aupdated-asc" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(51,122,183);text-decoration-line:none">Issues sorted by least active</a> Visit the top of the issue, and if you can close it with a proper comment and label WONTFIX, do so.</p></li><li class="gmail-" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-top:0.25em"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:16px 0px">Bugs: If the bug is not critical, and can be resolved with a proper comment, go ahead!</p></li></ul><h2 class="gmail-part" id="gmail-Notes-from-the-meeting" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,&quot;Segoe UI&quot;,&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Helvetica,Roboto,Arial,sans-serif,&quot;Apple Color Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;;line-height:1.25;color:rgb(51,51,51);margin-top:24px;margin-bottom:16px;padding-bottom:0.3em;border-bottom:1px solid rgb(238,238,238);letter-spacing:0.35px"><span class="gmail-octicon gmail-octicon-link" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:1;font-family:octicons;display:inline-block;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:middle"></span>Notes from the meeting</h2><p class="gmail-part" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,&quot;Segoe UI&quot;,&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Helvetica,Roboto,Arial,sans-serif,&quot;Apple Color Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;;font-size:16px;letter-spacing:0.35px">Introduction by Amar; general setting of expectation from the Gluster 8 release in light of Gluster X discussion from the last meetup. Stability is the focus. However, keeping documentation and codebase in sync helps our users and is important to keep in mind.</p><p class="gmail-part" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,&quot;Segoe UI&quot;,&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Helvetica,Roboto,Arial,sans-serif,&quot;Apple Color Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;;font-size:16px;letter-spacing:0.35px">There is a lot of steps to undertake in order to push the project towards the intent of Gluster X. Not breaking things; but making features and capabilities progressive.</p><p class="gmail-part" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,&quot;Segoe UI&quot;,&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Helvetica,Roboto,Arial,sans-serif,&quot;Apple Color Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;;font-size:16px;letter-spacing:0.35px">Network layer optimization is an improvement that would require intensive effort to make possible. It should be discussed and planned but not realistic for release 8.</p><p class="gmail-part" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,&quot;Segoe UI&quot;,&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Helvetica,Roboto,Arial,sans-serif,&quot;Apple Color Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;;font-size:16px;letter-spacing:0.35px">[Yaniv] Mohit has an experimental patch for performance enhancement (ls -l etc; anyone has link to the patch?)</p><p class="gmail-part" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,&quot;Segoe UI&quot;,&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Helvetica,Roboto,Arial,sans-serif,&quot;Apple Color Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;;font-size:16px;letter-spacing:0.35px">Performance improvements are desirable as they have been present for quite a while in Gluster.</p><p class="gmail-part" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,&quot;Segoe UI&quot;,&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Helvetica,Roboto,Arial,sans-serif,&quot;Apple Color Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;;font-size:16px;letter-spacing:0.35px">[Aravinda] Path-based GeoReplication - the design is available. It has to be made to work with sharding. The implementation is not ready yet to make it a target for release 8; likely a release 9</p><p class="gmail-part" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,&quot;Segoe UI&quot;,&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Helvetica,Roboto,Arial,sans-serif,&quot;Apple Color Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;;font-size:16px;letter-spacing:0.35px">Multiple set of activities around the topic of Global Threadpool. Amar hasn’t observed many patches in recent times. Not a release 8</p><p class="gmail-part" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,&quot;Segoe UI&quot;,&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Helvetica,Roboto,Arial,sans-serif,&quot;Apple Color Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;;font-size:16px;letter-spacing:0.35px">[Yaniv] 3k-4k support has some incremental work available. But a complete set of work required to get it in release 8 is not yet available. [Amar] best to think about using some label based tracking mechanism to see how to test it as entire capability.</p><p class="gmail-part" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,&quot;Segoe UI&quot;,&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Helvetica,Roboto,Arial,sans-serif,&quot;Apple Color Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;;font-size:16px;letter-spacing:0.35px">RIO has a lot of work at this point and there is not enough full time work being undertaken on this. Amar has a <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KEwVtSNvDhs4qb63gWx2ulCp5GJjge77NGJk4p_Ms4Q/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(51,122,183);text-decoration-line:none">new approach</a> that has received comments from Xavi, and need some more from people with experience in RIO like Shyam, Kotresh, Susant, so possibly a release 10 candidate.</p><p class="gmail-part" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,&quot;Segoe UI&quot;,&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Helvetica,Roboto,Arial,sans-serif,&quot;Apple Color Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;;font-size:16px;letter-spacing:0.35px">Code instrumentation and tracing requires a set of changes across the codebase without a set of designs in place it is not a release 8 target, but this is critical to get going for future performance improvement work, would be great to target ‘sooner’ than later.</p><p class="gmail-part" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,&quot;Segoe UI&quot;,&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Helvetica,Roboto,Arial,sans-serif,&quot;Apple Color Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;;font-size:16px;letter-spacing:0.35px">Yati has been working on structured logging and the given the work the remaining it is a good release 8 target. Needs review and more contributions.</p><ul class="gmail-part" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;padding-left:2em;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,&quot;Segoe UI&quot;,&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Helvetica,Roboto,Arial,sans-serif,&quot;Apple Color Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;;font-size:16px;letter-spacing:0.35px"><li class="gmail-" style="box-sizing:border-box"><small style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:13.6px"><span class="gmail-fa gmail-fa-user" style="box-sizing:border-box;display:inline-block;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:1;font-family:FontAwesome;font-size:inherit"></span> Amar</small> Structured logging is for machines, so don’t expect to have a Meaningful log.</li><li class="gmail-" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-top:0.25em"><small style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:13.6px"><span class="gmail-fa gmail-fa-user" style="box-sizing:border-box;display:inline-block;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:1;font-family:FontAwesome;font-size:inherit"></span> Aravinda</small> output will be still readable. The dynamic parts would be moved into the key/value pair format and are searchable. The messages will continue to be a prior part in logs.</li></ul><p class="gmail-part" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,&quot;Segoe UI&quot;,&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Helvetica,Roboto,Arial,sans-serif,&quot;Apple Color Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;;font-size:16px;letter-spacing:0.35px">GFID-split brain resolution has been commented to be a Day1 issue. Unsure of status. Moving out of release8 milestone</p><p class="gmail-part" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,&quot;Segoe UI&quot;,&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Helvetica,Roboto,Arial,sans-serif,&quot;Apple Color Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;;font-size:16px;letter-spacing:0.35px">Reviewing the current set of issues at <a href="https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+milestone%3A%22Release+8%22" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(51,122,183);text-decoration-line:none">https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+milestone%3A&quot;Release+8&quot;</a> in order to address what is realistic for the release based on likelihood of availability</p><p class="gmail-part" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,&quot;Segoe UI&quot;,&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Helvetica,Roboto,Arial,sans-serif,&quot;Apple Color Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;;font-size:16px;letter-spacing:0.35px">[Yaniv] Issues tagged with release 8 have a higher chance of been addressed within the time. The topics will be reviewed and appropriately tracked</p><p class="gmail-part" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,&quot;Segoe UI&quot;,&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Helvetica,Roboto,Arial,sans-serif,&quot;Apple Color Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;;font-size:16px;letter-spacing:0.35px">[Aravinda] Non root geo replication - the documentation would need to be updated. Migration methods would be handled.</p><ul class="gmail-part" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;padding-left:2em;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,&quot;Segoe UI&quot;,&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Helvetica,Roboto,Arial,sans-serif,&quot;Apple Color Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;;font-size:16px;letter-spacing:0.35px"><li class="gmail-" style="box-sizing:border-box">This is important because many users may not open root access to remote machine through SSH.</li><li class="gmail-" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-top:0.25em">Non-Root geo-rep is stable, and is ready to be promoted as the default option now.</li></ul><p class="gmail-part" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,&quot;Segoe UI&quot;,&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Helvetica,Roboto,Arial,sans-serif,&quot;Apple Color Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;;font-size:16px;letter-spacing:0.35px">[YanivK] Would like to see CentOS8 support, scaled volume counts, Performance improvement as the major features listed for Release-8.</p><ul class="gmail-part" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;padding-left:2em;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,&quot;Segoe UI&quot;,&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Helvetica,Roboto,Arial,sans-serif,&quot;Apple Color Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;;font-size:16px;letter-spacing:0.35px"><li class="gmail-" style="box-sizing:border-box">The first 2 would be possible to meet.</li><li class="gmail-" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-top:0.25em">The perf improvement challenge would be ‘ambitious’.</li></ul><p class="gmail-part" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,&quot;Segoe UI&quot;,&quot;Helv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cSystemFont,&quot;Segoe UI&quot;,&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Helvetica,Roboto,Arial,sans-serif,&quot;Apple Color Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;;font-size:16px;letter-spacing:0.35px"><li class="gmail-" style="box-sizing:border-box">[sankarshan] to open a release 8 milestone <a href="https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/813" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(51,122,183);text-decoration-line:none">Github issue</a> and seek inputs that should be part of release note - DONE</li><li class="gmail-" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-top:0.25em">to generate graph of Coverity nearer to the release</li><li class="gmail-" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-top:0.25em">the testing framework has shown errors - needs more focus for that to be stabilized.</li></ul><p class="gmail-part" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,&quot;Segoe UI&quot;,&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Helvetica,Roboto,Arial,sans-serif,&quot;Apple Color Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;;font-size:16px;letter-spacing:0.35px">[Aravinda]</p><ul class="gmail-part" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;padding-left:2em;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,&quot;Segoe UI&quot;,&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Helvetica,Roboto,Arial,sans-serif,&quot;Apple Color Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;;font-size:16px;letter-spacing:0.35px"><li class="gmail-" style="box-sizing:border-box">gstatus is used still; but not compatible with latest version</li><li class="gmail-" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-top:0.25em">planning to make it compatible with release 8</li><li class="gmail-" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-top:0.25em">monitoring is another aspect which receives requests. A select few metrics with a Grafana dashboard is something that can be targeted. Plan is to have a webinar for Gluster monitoring</li></ul><p class="gmail-part" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,&quot;Segoe UI&quot;,&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Helvetica,Roboto,Arial,sans-serif,&quot;Apple Color Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;;font-size:16px;letter-spacing:0.35px">[sankarshan] Question for later - what about the Gluster8/oVirt part?</p><p class="gmail-part" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,&quot;Segoe UI&quot;,&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Helvetica,Roboto,Arial,sans-serif,&quot;Apple Color Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;;font-size:16px;letter-spacing:0.35px"><br></p><p class="gmail-part" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,&quot;Segoe UI&quot;,&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Helvetica,Roboto,Arial,sans-serif,&quot;Apple Color Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;;font-size:16px;letter-spacing:0.35px">----</p><p class="gmail-part" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,&quot;Segoe UI&quot;,&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Helvetica,Roboto,Arial,sans-serif,&quot;Apple Color Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;;font-size:16px;letter-spacing:0.35px"><br></p><p class="gmail-part" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,&quot;Segoe UI&quot;,&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Helvetica,Roboto,Arial,sans-serif,&quot;Apple Color Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;;font-size:16px;letter-spacing:0.35px">Please post if you have any questions.</p><p class="gmail-part" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,&quot;Segoe UI&quot;,&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Helvetica,Roboto,Arial,sans-serif,&quot;Apple Color Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;;font-size:16px;letter-spacing:0.35px"><br></p><p class="gmail-part" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,&quot;Segoe UI&quot;,&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Helvetica,Roboto,Arial,sans-serif,&quot;Apple Color Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;;font-size:16px;letter-spacing:0.35px">Regards,</p><p class="gmail-part" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,&quot;Segoe UI&quot;,&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Helvetica,Roboto,Arial,sans-serif,&quot;Apple Color Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;;font-size:16px;letter-spacing:0.35px">Amar</p></div></div>