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

[Poornima Gurusiddaiah]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Shyam" <srangana at redhat.com>
> To: "Gluster Devel" <gluster-devel at gluster.org>
> Cc: gluster-users at gluster.org
> Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2017 8:17:34 PM
> Subject: Re: [Gluster-devel] Announcing release 3.11 : Scope, schedule and feature tracking
> 
> 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).
> 
> >
> > *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)

Issue: https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/82
Bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1442569
Patch: https://review.gluster.org/#/c/16952/
This feature is targeted for 3.11 as an experimental feature and mostly for
SMB users only.

> 4) Parallel Readdirp - More changes to default settings. (@poornima, @du)
I think we should let it be optional for another release,
until it stabilizes. However, for this release we would like to make it
production feature (not experimental). I have raised the issue for
the same: https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/166

Also for 3.11, one more item would be to make the md-cache improvements
production feature, it is experimental currently. Issue for the same:
https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/167

Will add the release notes for all these features in the issues. I do not have
permissions to add labels though.

Thanks,
Poornima
> 
> > [1] 3.10 release announcement:
> > http://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2017-February/052188.html
> >
> > [2] Gluster 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
> >
> > [4] Release scope: https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/projects/1
> >
> > [5] glusterfs github 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
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