[Gluster-devel] 3.9. feature freeze status check

[Prashanth Pai]

 -Prashanth Pai

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Soumya Koduri" <skoduri at redhat.com>
> To: "Pranith Kumar Karampuri" <pkarampu at redhat.com>, "Rajesh Joseph" <rjoseph at redhat.com>, "Manikandan Selvaganesh"
> <mselvaga at redhat.com>, "Csaba Henk" <chenk at redhat.com>, "Niels de Vos" <ndevos at redhat.com>, "Jiffin Thottan"
> <jthottan at redhat.com>, "Aravinda Vishwanathapura Krishna Murthy" <avishwan at redhat.com>, "Anoop Chirayath Manjiyil
> Sajan" <achiraya at redhat.com>, "Ravishankar Narayanankutty" <ravishankar at redhat.com>, "Kaushal Madappa"
> <kmadappa at redhat.com>, "Raghavendra Talur" <rtalur at redhat.com>, "Poornima Gurusiddaiah" <pgurusid at redhat.com>,
> "Kaleb Keithley" <kkeithle at redhat.com>, "Jose Rivera" <jrivera at redhat.com>, "Prashanth Pai" <ppai at redhat.com>,
> "Samikshan Bairagya" <sbairagy at redhat.com>, "Vijay Bellur" <vbellur at redhat.com>
> Cc: "Gluster Devel" <gluster-devel at gluster.org>
> Sent: Monday, 29 August, 2016 12:10:02 PM
> Subject: Re: 3.9. feature freeze status check
> 
> 
> 
> On 08/26/2016 09:38 PM, Pranith Kumar Karampuri wrote:
> > hi,
> >       Now that we are almost near the feature freeze date (31st of Aug),
> > want to get a sense if any of the status of the features.
> >
> > Please respond with:
> > 1) Feature already merged
> > 2) Undergoing review will make it by 31st Aug
> > 3) Undergoing review, but may not make it by 31st Aug
> > 4) Feature won't make it for 3.9.
> >
> > I added the features that were not planned(i.e. not in the 3.9 roadmap
> > page) but made it to the release and not planned but may make it to
> > release at the end of this mail.
> > If you added a feature on master that will be released as part of 3.9.0
> > but forgot to add it to roadmap page, please let me know I will add it.
> >
> > Here are the features planned as per the roadmap:
> > 1) Throttling
> > Feature owner: Ravishankar
> >
> > 2) Trash improvements
> > Feature owners: Anoop, Jiffin
> >
> > 3) Kerberos for Gluster protocols:
> > Feature owners: Niels, Csaba
> >
> > 4) SELinux on gluster volumes:
> > Feature owners: Niels, Manikandan
> >
> > 5) Native sub-directory mounts:
> > Feature owners: Kaushal, Pranith
> >
> > 6) RichACL support for GlusterFS:
> > Feature owners: Rajesh Joseph
> >
> > 7) Sharemodes/Share reservations:
> > Feature owners: Raghavendra Talur, Poornima G, Soumya Koduri, Rajesh
> > Joseph, Anoop C S
> >
> > 8) Integrate with external resource management software
> > Feature owners: Kaleb Keithley, Jose Rivera
> >
> > 9) Python Wrappers for Gluster CLI Commands
> > Feature owners: Aravinda VK
> >
> > 10) Package and ship libgfapi-python
> > Feature owners: Prashant Pai

This has been packaged on PyPI and is available for installation using pip[1].
But as per discussion on this thread[2], the RPM packages won't be built as
part of glusterfs release lifecycle and will continue to be external.

[1]: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/gfapi
[2]: http://nongnu.13855.n7.nabble.com/Packaging-libgfapi-python-td214308.html

> >
> > 11) Management REST APIs
> > Feature owners: Aravinda VK
> >
> > 12) Events APIs
> > Feature owners: Aravinda VK
> >
> > 13) CLI to get state representation of a cluster from the local glusterd
> > pov
> > Feature owners: Samikshan Bairagya
> >
> > 14) Posix-locks Reclaim support
> > Feature owners: Soumya Koduri
> 
> Sorry this feature will not make it 3.9. Hopefully will get it in the
> next release.
> 
> >
> > 15) Deprecate striped volumes
> > Feature owners: Vijay Bellur, Niels de Vos
> >
> > 16) Improvements in Gluster NFS-Ganesha integration
> > Feature owners: Jiffin Tony Thottan, Soumya Koduri
> 
> This one is already merged.
> 
> Thanks,
> Soumya
> 
> >
> > *The following need to be added to the roadmap:*
> >
> > Features that made it to master already but were not palnned:
> > 1) Multi threaded self-heal in EC
> > Feature owner: Pranith (Did this because serkan asked for it. He has 9PB
> > volume, self-healing takes a long time :-/)
> >
> > 2) Lock revocation (Facebook patch)
> > Feature owner: Richard Wareing
> >
> > Features that look like will make it to 3.9.0:
> > 1) Hardware extension support for EC
> > Feature owner: Xavi
> >
> > 2) Reset brick support for replica volumes:
> > Feature owner: Anuradha
> >
> > 3) Md-cache perf improvements in smb:
> > Feature owner: Poornima
> >
> > --
> > Pranith
>