<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Oct 17, 2022 at 8:41 AM Xavi Hernandez <<a href="mailto:jahernan@redhat.com">jahernan@redhat.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Oct 17, 2022 at 4:03 AM Amar Tumballi <<a href="mailto:amar@kadalu.io" target="_blank">amar@kadalu.io</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Here is my honest take on this one.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Oct 11, 2022 at 3:06 PM Shwetha Acharya <<a href="mailto:sacharya@redhat.com" target="_blank">sacharya@redhat.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">It is time to evaluate the fulfillment of our committed features/improvements and the feasibility of the proposed deadlines as per <a href="https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/3023" target="_blank">Release 11 tracker</a>.<br><br><br>Currently our timeline is as follows:<br><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000"><br style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji";font-size:14px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:600;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji";font-size:14px">Code Freeze:</span><span style="font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji";font-size:14px"> 31-Oct-2022</span><br style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji";font-size:14px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:600;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji";font-size:14px">RC :</span><span style="font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji";font-size:14px"> 30-Nov-2022</span><br style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji";font-size:14px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:600;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji";font-size:14px">GA :</span><span style="font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji";font-size:14px"> 10-JAN-2023</span></font></span><br><br><b>Please evaluate the following and reply to this thread if you want to convey anything important:</b><div><br>- Can we ensure to fulfill all the proposed requirements by the Code Freeze?<br>- Do we need to add any more changes to accommodate any shortcomings or improvements?<br>- Are we all good to go with the proposed timeline?<br><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>We have delayed the release already by more than 1year, and that is a significant delay for any project. If the changes we work on is not getting released frequently, the feedback loop for the project is delayed and hence the further improvements. So, regardless of any pending promised things, we should go ahead with the code-freeze and release on these dates.</div><div><br></div><div>It is crucial for any projects / companies dependent on the project to plan accordingly. There may be already few others who would have planned their product release around these dates. Lets keep the same dates, and try to achieve the tasks we have planned in these dates.</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I agree. Pending changes will need to be added to next release. Doing it at last time is not safe for stability.</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Generally, +1. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">- Some info on my in-flight PRs:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I have multiple independent patches for the flexible array member conversion of different variables that are pending:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="fon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nt-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><br></div><div>Xavi</div></div></div>
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