[Gluster-devel] Weekly community meeting - Nov 02, 2016

[Kaushal M]

Hi all,

This week we discussed 3 topics (again!).

1. The FSFE etherpad service (where we host the meeting agenda and a
lot other gluster docs) will be shutdown, so we need to find an
alternative. We decided to make use of etherpads as temporary tools of
live collaboration, and using github wikis to permanently record the
document. Our first task is to identify and record known/live
etherpads. Nigel and I will start working on this, with our first
target being the community meeting agenda.

2. Nigel has created a centos-ci job for Glusto, which is nearly ready for use.

3. We continued discussion on 'Recognizing contributors', and we
couldn't arrive at a conclusion again. This discussion will continue
on the mailing lists.

I've pasted the meeting minutes below for easy reference. This will
also be available from a github wiki soon.

I'll be hosting next weeks meeting. See you all next week, same time &
same place.

~kaushal

## Logs

- Minutes: https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/gluster-meeting/2016-11-02/weekly_community_meeting_nov_2,_2016.2016-11-02-12.00.html
- Minutes (text):
https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/gluster-meeting/2016-11-02/weekly_community_meeting_nov_2,_2016.2016-11-02-12.00.txt
- Log: https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/gluster-meeting/2016-11-02/weekly_community_meeting_nov_2,_2016.2016-11-02-12.00.log.html

## Topics of Discussion

### Host for next week (DON'T FORGET)

- Next weeks meeting moderator: kshlm
- kkeithley will host the Nov 16 meeting

### Open Floor

- Recognising community contributors(Manikandan Selvaganesh)
 - https://glusterfs.biterg.io/app/kibana#/dashboard/Overview
 - [nigelb] Are we clear on what is being asked for? What is the
problem we are trying to solve
 - People want to be rewarded for their contributions
 - As a reward for their work make them maintainers
 - Need to measure quality, not quantity.
   - Super tough
 - nigelb will be taking discussion to mailing list
- Sending up EasyFix bugs(assigned with a owner) on mailing list so
that new contributors can get started(May be?) (Manikandan
Selvaganesh)
 - Skipped again
- Glusto Job on Centos CI
 - https://ci.centos.org/job/gluster_glusto
   - Job setup, needs tweaking to get it 100% functional.
 - Leverage learaning from 3.9 test day into some tests.
- FSFE pad service is about to be decomissioned. Need to find an alternative.
 - https://wiki.fsfe.org/Teams/System-Hackers/Decommissioning-Pad
 - Pads will turn read-only on Dec 1. And will be deleted Feb 1.
 - Options
   - beta.etherpad.org
   - https://pad.riseup.net/
   - https://github.com/ether/etherpad-lite/wiki/Sites-that-run-Etherpad-Lite
 - Etherpad for live editing documents + Github wiki for permanent records.
 - First find and preserve existing pads. Pick alternative later.

## Updates

### GlusterFS 4.0

- GD2 (kshlm)
 - Volgen-2.0 design and prototype started. More info at
https://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2016-October/051297.html
- Multiplexing
 - https://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2016-November/051364.html

### GlusterFS 3.9

- _None_

### GlusterFS 3.8

- _None_


### GlusterFS 3.7

- Release planned for later today. Got delayed because of holidays in India.

### GlusterFS 3.6

- _None_

### Other initiatives and related projects

#### Infrastructure

- Ongoing work on getting Glusto jobs on Centos CI
- Network issue between Centos CI and review.gluster.org

#### NFS Ganesha

- ganesha 2.4.1 and (lib)ntirpc-1.4.3) were released. packages in
Fedora Updates-Testing (soon Updates) and Ubuntu Launchpad. Other
distributions soon.
- now working on 2.5, emphasis on performance and memory consum

#### Samba

- Regression caused due to https://review.gluster.org/#/c/15332/ is
being tracked by upstream bug
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12404 so that the fix from
master gets backported to release branches.

#### Heketi/Containers

- We have a new repo under Gluster org in Github for anything and
everything related to Gluster as storage in containers. Refer to
https://github.com/gluster/container-storage

#### Testing/Glusto

- https://ci.centos.org/job/gluster_glusto

### Last weeks AIs
- rastar_afk/ndevos/jdarcy to improve cleanup to control the processes
that test starts.
 - _No updates_
- atinm to poke 3.9 release mgrs to finish and release
 - _No updates_
- obnox to starting discussion of Samba memory solutions
 - _No updates_
- jdarcy to discuss dbench smoke test failures on email
 - _No updates_

### Other Updates

- amye sent out the monthly newsletter
 - https://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2016-November/028920.html