[Gluster-devel] GlusterD 2.0 status updates

[Vijay Bellur]

On Monday 07 September 2015 09:38 PM, Jeff Darcy wrote:
>> Agree here. I think we can use Go as the other non-C language for
>> components like glusterd, geo-replication etc. and retire the python
>> implementation of gsyncd that exists in 3.x over time.
>
> That sounds like a pretty major effort.  Are you suggesting that it
> (or even part of it) should be part of 4.0?
>

Not for the first cut of 4.0 but we can take this up as a goal for a 
subsequent 4.x release. We do not have a lot of non C code. syncdaemon 
and glusterfind are probably the only non C pieces that exist today in 
the codebase (excluding tests, glupy). The python implementation of 
gsyncd is not one of my favorite pieces of code in the repository. I 
find it obscure and am slightly concerned about it from a 
maintainability perspective. A refactor might make it easier to manage 
over time.

>> python will still be present as part of our distaf test infrastructure.
>> We can possibly port our bash test scripts to python and retire the
>> usage of BASH with Gluster.next releases.
>
> Getting rid of bash scripts sounds great, but we're talking about 420
> scripts - many of them quite opaque and thus tedious to port to
> another language/framework.  I suspect that some of these tests will
> linger in their current form for quite some time to come.
>

Yes, agree with you. We can look at having new tests in python and do a 
lazy conversion of existing test units to python.

-Vijay