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

[Anders Blomdell]

On 2014-07-15 11:30, Niels de Vos wrote:
> 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.
OK, will have to keep my own version here then (some of my hosts are IPv6 only)
since the current state of affairs, where you have to edit a lot of volfiles, etc
in order to get it working is far too cumbersome.

> 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
Very little IPv6 there, but very useful for multi-homed machines (which I also want,
but not as badly).

/Anders

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