[Gluster-devel] Minutes from todays community meeting (6-December-2017)

[Niels de Vos]

Thanks for all who attended! The summary below comes from the agenda and
notes at https://bit.ly/gluster-community-meetings. This hackmd pad will
be cleaned and prepared for the next meeting in two weeks (20 December).

A few more details about the topics are in the log linked below. If you
never attended an IRC meeting before, you can see how things work and
decide to join next time :)

Cheers,
Niels


# Gluster Community Meeting

- Date: 2017-12-06
- Host: ndevos
- Logs:
    - Minutes: https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/gluster-meeting/2017-12-06/gluster_community_meeting.2017-12-06-15.01.html
    - Minutes (text): https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/gluster-meeting/2017-12-06/gluster_community_meeting.2017-12-06-15.01.txt
    - Log: https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/gluster-meeting/2017-12-06/gluster_community_meeting.2017-12-06-15.01.log.html

## General information

- Location : #gluster-meeting on Freenode ([webchat](https://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#gluster-meeting))
- Time :
  - 15:00  UTC
  - or in your local shell/terminal: `date -d "15:00 UTC"`

> NOTE: Instructions for meeting hosts are at the end of this page.

## Topics of Discussion

The meeting is an open floor, open for discussion of any topic entered below.
 
-  small updates about Glustered meeting (Bologna in March)
-  Will GlusterD2 mean that translators can now be written in Go?
   -  No, as GlusterD2 is only doing the management framework piece
-  _Add topics as new bullet points here_

### Next edition's meeting host

- JoeJulian

## Updates

> NOTE : Updates will not be discussed during meetings. Any important or noteworthy update will be announced at the end of the meeting

### Action Items from the last meeting

- JoeJulian to invite Harsha to next meeting to discuss Minio
- bulde/nigelb will start the survey to collect info on applications used with gluster (will take time)

### Releases

#### GlusterFS 4.0
- Maintainers: Shyam, **TBD**
- Schedule (proposed):
    - Feature proposal end date: **TBD**
    - Branching: Dec-15-2017 (tentative)
    - Release: Jan-30-2017
    - Minor release updates: (target) 20th of each month
- [Visit github lane "Release 4.0" for planned features](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/projects/1)
- Updates:
    - GD2
        - 
  - _Add updates here_

#### GlusterFS 3.13
- Maintainers: Shyam
- Schedule:
    - ENDED: Feature proposal end date: Sep-22-2017
    - UPCOMING: Branching: Oct-16-2017
    - Release: Nov-30-2017
    - Minor release updates: (target) 20th of each month
- [Visit github lane "Release 3.13" for planned features](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/projects/1)

#### GlusterFS 3.12 next minor update
- Next update: (due) October, 10th 2017
- Maintainers: shyam, jiffin
- Blocker tracker: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=glusterfs-3.12.2


### 3.10 next minor update
- Next update: October, 30th 2017
- Maintainers: Shyam, Talur, Kaleb
- Blocker tracker: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=glusterfs-3.10.7


### Related projects and efforts

#### Community Infra

- _Add updates here_

#### Samba

- _Add updates here_

#### Ganesha

- _Add updates here_

#### Containers

- _Add updates here_

#### Testing

- _Add updates here_

#### Others

- _Anything that doesn't belong to any above categories, add updates here_

## Announcements

### New announcements

- _Add anything you want to announce to the community here_

### Regular announcements

- If you're attending any event/conference please add the event and yourselves to the community issue queue! https://github.com/gluster/community/issues
- Put (even minor) interesting topics/updates on https://bit.ly/gluster-community-meetings