[Gluster-devel] 3.9. feature freeze status check

[Niels de Vos]

On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 02:45:01AM -0400, Prashanth Pai wrote:
> 
> 
>  -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.

Also external packages are part of the Gluster Community, and can be
mentioned in the release notes. What is the status of the RPM packages
for Fedora and possibly packages for other distributions?

Thanks,
Niels


> 
> [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
> > 
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