[Gluster-devel] Updates to operating-version

[Lalatendu Mohanty]

On 12/17/2014 07:39 PM, Niels de Vos wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 08:40:18AM -0500, James wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> If you plan on updating the operating-version value of GlusterFS, please
>> either ping me (@purpleidea) or send a patch to puppet-gluster [1].
>> Patches are 4 line yaml files, and you don't need any knowledge of
>> puppet or yaml to do so.
>>
>> Example:
>>
>> +# gluster/data/versions/3.6.yaml
>> +---
>> +gluster::versions::operating_version: '30600' # v3.6.0
>> +# vim: ts=8
>>
>> As seen at:
>>
>> https://github.com/purpleidea/puppet-gluster/commit/43c60d2ddd6f57d2117585dc149de6653bdabd4b#diff-7cb3f60a533975d869ffd4a772d66cfeR1
>>
>> Thanks for your cooperation! This will ensure puppet-gluster can always
>> correctly work with new versions of GlusterFS.
> How about you post a patch that adds this request as a comment in the
> glusterfs sources (libglusterfs/src/globals.h)?
>
> Or, maybe this should be noted on some wiki page, and have the comment
> point to the wiki instead. Maybe other projects start to use the
> op-version in future too, and they also need to get informed about a
> change.
>

IMO we should make it a practice to send a mail to gluster-devel 
whenever a patch is sent to increase the operating-version. Similar to 
practice what Fedora follows for so version bump.

-Lala