[Gluster-devel] [Gluster-users] [FEEDBACK] Governance of GlusterFS project

Anand Avati anand.avati at gmail.com
Tue Jul 30 09:25:33 UTC 2013


On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 2:17 PM, Joe Julian <joe at julianfamily.org> wrote:

> As one of the guys supporting this software, I agree that I would like
> bugfix releases to happen more. Critical and security bugs should trigger
> an immediate test release. Other bug fixes should go out on a reasonable
> schedule (monthly?). The relatively new CI testing should make this a lot
> more feasible.
>

Joe, we will certainly be increasing the frequency of releases to push out
bug fixes sooner. Though this has been a consistent theme in everybody's
comments, your feedback in particular weighs in heavily because of your
level of involvement in guiding our users :-)

Avati


>
> If there weren't hundreds of bugs to examine between releases, I would
> happily participate in the evaluation process.
>
>
> On 07/26/2013 05:16 PM, Bryan Whitehead wrote:
>
>> I would really like to see releases happen regularly and more
>> aggressively. So maybe this plan needs a community QA guy or the
>> release manager needs to take up that responsibility to say "this code
>> is good for including in the next version". (Maybe this falls under
>> process and evaluation?)
>>
>> For example, I think the ext4 patches had long been available but they
>> just took forever to get pushed out into an official release.
>>
>> I'm in favor of closing some bugs and risking introducing new bugs for
>> the sake of releases happening often.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 10:26 AM, Anand Avati <anand.avati at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello everyone,
>>>
>>>    We are in the process of formalizing the governance model of the
>>> GlusterFS
>>> project. Historically, the governance of the project has been loosely
>>> structured. This is an invitation to all of you to participate in this
>>> discussion and provide your feedback and suggestions on how we should
>>> evolve
>>> a formal model. Feedback from this thread will be considered to the
>>> extent
>>> possible in formulating the draft (which will be sent out for review as
>>> well).
>>>
>>>    Here are some specific topics to seed the discussion:
>>>
>>> - Core team formation
>>>    - what are the qualifications for membership (e.g contributions of
>>> code,
>>> doc, packaging, support on irc/lists, how to quantify?)
>>>    - what are the responsibilities of the group (e.g direction of the
>>> project, project roadmap, infrastructure, membership)
>>>
>>> - Roadmap
>>>    - process of proposing features
>>>    - process of selection of features for release
>>>
>>> - Release management
>>>    - timelines and frequency
>>>    - release themes
>>>    - life cycle and support for releases
>>>    - project management and tracking
>>>
>>> - Project maintainers
>>>    - qualification for membership
>>>    - process and evaluation
>>>
>>> There are a lot more topics which need to be discussed, I just named
>>> some to
>>> get started. I am sure our community has members who belong and
>>> participate
>>> (or at least are familiar with) other open source project communities.
>>> Your
>>> feedback will be valuable.
>>>
>>> Looking forward to hearing from you!
>>>
>>> Avati
>>>
>>>
>
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