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

Tue Apr 25 07:32:03 UTC 2017

Hi

https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/188 is merged in master
and needs to go in 3.11

Thanks and Regards,
Kotresh H R

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kaushal M" <kshlmster at gmail.com>
> To: "Shyam" <srangana at redhat.com>
> Cc: gluster-users at gluster.org, "Gluster Devel" <gluster-devel at gluster.org>
> Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2017 12:16:39 PM
> Subject: Re: [Gluster-devel] Announcing release 3.11 : Scope, schedule and feature tracking
> 
> On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 8:17 PM, Shyam <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).
> >
> >>
> >> *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)
> 
> This is under review at https://review.gluster.org/16228 . The patch
> mostly looks fine.
> 
> The only issue is that it currently depends and links with an internal
> FB fork of tirpc (mainly for some helper functions and utilities).
> This makes it hard for the community to make actual use of  and test,
> the IPv6 features/fixes introduced by the change.
> 
> If the change were refactored the use publicly available versions of
> tirpc or ntirpc, I'm OK for it to be merged. I did try it out myself.
> While I was able to build it against available versions of tirpc, I
> wasn't able to get it working correctly.
> 
> > 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
> >>
> >> [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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