[Gluster-devel] Update on 3.7 feature freeze & branching

[Vijay Bellur]

Hi All,

The last few days have been busy for us with feature patches getting 
reviewed, rebased and merged. As of now we have been able to review and 
merge most features that we wanted to have in 3.7. Parts of bitrot 
detection & tiering features have already been merged on mainline and we 
are awaiting few more patches from these areas to declare completion 
with respect to features. We seem to be well set to feature freeze 3.7 
tomorrow.

I will delay branching of 3.7 by a week or so after tomorrow to 
primarily include several bug fixes and minor improvements in areas like 
logging that have not received enough attention from us in the recent 
past. I will send out an update as we have a release-3.7 branch.

At this point, I don't foresee any change in the release schedule for 
3.7.0 GA unless we find critical blockers for the release.

Thanks to all of you who have helped us in reaching here. It has been a 
fantastic effort considering the amount of code churn and features that 
we have been able to get into 3.7. Another concerted effort from us will 
help in getting a good release of 3.7.0 out!

Thanks,
Vijay