[Gluster-devel] New 'experimental' branch created for validating your ideas

[Hari Gowtham]

What about the patches that are already posted against master and are
yet to be reviewed?
Is it fine to post them here and continue with the work further here
or wait for these patches to get in master
and then come to the experimental branch.
Asking this question because the patch is there for a very long time.

And it would be better to know what is the frequency in rebasing the
master and the experimental branch.
And how has the permission to merge the patches in the experimental branch.


On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 4:05 PM, Amar Tumballi <atumball at redhat.com> wrote:
> All,
>
> As proposed earlier [1], the 'experimental' branch is now created and
> active. Any submission to this branch is going to be accepted without too
> much detailed review, and the focus will be to make sure overall design is
> fine. I have put a deadline of a week max for reviewing and merging a patch
> if there are no significant problems with the patch.
>
> I welcome everyone to use this branch as an test bed to validate your ideas,
> so your patch gets merged, and the nightly regressions would run on it for
> some time. Also we are planning to give out RPMs from this branch every
> week, so some features which gets completed in experimental can be tested by
> wider user-base, and once validated, can land in master branch and
> subsequently next release.
>
> A note of caution: Getting a patch merged in experimental is in no way
> guarantee to get your patch in any of the upstream glusterfs releases. The
> author needs to submit the changes to 'master' branch to get the feature in
> releases.
>
> The branch already has some experimental features like:
>
> metrics on 'fops' in every xlator layer, instead of only getting it with
> io-stats.
> latency related information is default.
> few more metrics added in memory allocation checks.
> All the above can be seen with sending SIGUSR2 signal to GlusterFS process.
> (@ /tmp/glusterfs.* )
>
>
> Regards,
> Amar
>
> [1] - http://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/maintainers/2017-May/002644.html
>
> --
> Amar Tumballi (amarts)
>
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Regards,
Hari Gowtham.