[Gluster-devel] Announcing release 3.11 : Scope, schedule and feature tracking

[Shyam]

On 04/13/2017 11:32 AM, Atin Mukherjee wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 8:17 PM, Shyam <srangana at redhat.com
> <mailto:srangana at redhat.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 02/28/2017 10:17 AM, Shyam wrote:
>
>         Hi,
>
>         With release 3.10 shipped [1], it is time to set the dates for
>         release
>         3.11 (and subsequently 4.0).
>
>         This mail has the following sections, so please read or revisit
>         as needed,
>           - Release 3.11 dates (the schedule)
>           - 3.11 focus areas
>
>
>     Pinging the list on the above 2 items.
>
>         *Release 3.11 dates:*
>         Based on our release schedule [2], 3.11 would be 3 months from
>         the 3.10
>         release and would be a Short Term Maintenance (STM) release.
>
>         This puts 3.11 schedule as (working from the release date
>         backwards):
>         - Release: May 30th, 2017
>         - Branching: April 27th, 2017
>
>
>     Branching is about 2 weeks away, other than the initial set of
>     overflow features from 3.10 nothing else has been raised on the
>     lists and in github as requests for 3.11.
>
>     So, a reminder to folks who are working on features, to raise the
>     relevant github issue for the same, and post it to devel list for
>     consideration in 3.11 (also this helps tracking and ensuring we are
>     waiting for the right things at the time of branching).
>
>
> https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/158 will get into 3.11. This
> feature enhances the existing get-state cli implementation to add few
> more parameters like client details, brick consumption to the output
> file so that these new attributes can be considered by tendrl project.

Thank you, added to the board.

>
>
>
>
>         *3.11 focus areas:*
>         As maintainers of gluster, we want to harden testing around the
>         various
>         gluster features in this release. Towards this the focus area
>         for this
>         release are,
>
>         1) Testing improvements in Gluster
>           - Primary focus would be to get automated test cases to determine
>         release health, rather than repeating a manual exercise every 3
>         months
>           - Further, we would also attempt to focus on maturing
>         Glusto[7] for
>         this, and other needs (as much as possible)
>
>         2) Merge all (or as much as possible) Facebook patches into
>         master, and
>         hence into release 3.11
>           - Facebook has (as announced earlier [3]) started posting their
>         patches mainline, and this needs some attention to make it into
>         master
>
>
>     Further to the above, we are also considering the following features
>     for this release, request feature owners to let us know if these are
>     actively being worked on and if these will make the branching dates.
>     (calling out folks that I think are the current feature owners for
>     the same)
>
>     1) Halo - Initial Cut (@pranith)
>     2) IPv6 support (@kaushal)
>     3) Negative lookup (@poornima)
>     4) Parallel Readdirp - More changes to default settings. (@poornima,
>     @du)
>
>
>         [1] 3.10 release announcement:
>         http://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2017-February/052188.html
>         <http://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2017-February/052188.html>
>
>         [2] Gluster release schedule:
>         https://www.gluster.org/community/release-schedule/
>         <https://www.gluster.org/community/release-schedule/>
>
>         [3] Mail regarding facebook patches:
>         http://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2016-December/051784.html
>         <http://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2016-December/051784.html>
>
>         [4] Release scope:
>         https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/projects/1
>         <https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/projects/1>
>
>         [5] glusterfs github issues:
>         https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues
>         <https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues>
>
>         [6] github issues for features and major fixes:
>         https://hackmd.io/s/BkgH8sdtg#
>
>         [7] Glusto tests: https://github.com/gluster/glusto-tests
>         <https://github.com/gluster/glusto-tests>
>         _______________________________________________
>         Gluster-devel mailing list
>         Gluster-devel at gluster.org <mailto:Gluster-devel at gluster.org>
>         http://lists.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-devel
>         <http://lists.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-devel>
>
>     _______________________________________________
>     Gluster-devel mailing list
>     Gluster-devel at gluster.org <mailto:Gluster-devel at gluster.org>
>     http://lists.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-devel
>     <http://lists.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-devel>
>
>
>
>
> --
>
> ATin Mukherjee
>
> Associate Manager, RHGS Development
>
> Red Hat
>
> <https://www.redhat.com>
>
> amukherj at redhat.com <mailto:amukherj at redhat.com>    M: +919739491377
> <http://redhatemailsignature-marketing.itos.redhat.com/>     IM: IRC:
> atinm, twitter: @mukherjee_atin
>
> <https://red.ht/sig>