[Gluster-devel] Patches to be merged before 3.6 branching

[Niels de Vos]

On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 06:05:25PM +0100, Justin Clift wrote:
> On 14/07/2014, at 4:20 PM, Anders Blomdell wrote:
> > On 2014-07-14 16:03, Vijay Bellur wrote:
> >> Hi All,
> >> 
> >> I intend creating the 3.6 branch tomorrow. After that, the branch
> >> will be restricted to bug fixes only. If you have any major patches
> >> to be reviewed and merged for release-3.6, please update this
> >> thread.
> > Does this mean that https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1113050
> > has no chance to get in (no patch for that yet, still trying to figure out
> > how things work inside gluster)?
> 
> Sounds like that would be a bug fix, so it'd get applied to everything that
> it makes sense too.  eg likely 3.6, 3.5, 3.7dev, etc.

Indeed, if there is no patch available when release-3.6 gets branched, 
bug fixes and (serious) usability improvements can get backported to the 
3.6 version. The process to do so has been documented here:
- http://www.gluster.org/community/documentation/index.php/Backport_Guidelines

When the branching happened, the 3.6 release will be closed for new 
feature enhancements. The goal is to stabilize the branch and not 
introduce any complex/major changes anymore. Vijay will likely mention 
this in his announcement of the release-3.6 branch too.

There can be a thin line between 'usability bug' and 'feature'. If an 
acceptable case is made for an improvement, I doubt it will have 
difficulties getting included in any of the stable branches.

<snip>
> > And I would really like to get http://review.gluster.org/8292,
> 
> IPv6 support.  Niels, have you had a change to look at this?  Should we
> get this merged, and fix any bugs that turn up later?

No, and unfortunately I will unlikely be able to look into that within 
the next few weeks. I'd really like to see good IPv6 support in Gluster, 
but for me it really is a long-term goal.

Maybe the 'better peer identification' feature improves IPv6 support as 
well. Some details and further pointers to discussions about it can be 
found here:
- http://www.gluster.org/community/documentation/index.php/Features/Better_peer_identification

Niels