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

[Vijay Bellur]

On 03/25/2015 10:43 PM, Vijay Bellur wrote:
> On 03/19/2015 11:52 PM, Vijay Bellur wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>
> The missing pieces of bitrot detection and tiering are in now. So we are
> good to declare feature freeze now. Kudos to all of us in reaching here :).
>
>> 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.
>>
>
> Branching for 3.7 will happen after we merge coverity fixes, logging
> improvements and critical bug fixes.
>
> Maintainers - can you please provide an ACK for sanity of the quality of
> your component(s) in 3.7? Basically we should aim to avoid functional
> regressions and critical issues before we branch.
>
> Once we have both of these in place, I will branch release-3.7.
>

Forgot to add -  one more criterion for branching as discussed in 
today's community meeting is to have no known spurious regression test 
failures.

Thanks,
Vijay