[Gluster-devel] Release 5: Release calendar and status updates

[Sanoj Unnikrishnan]

On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 11:33 PM, Shyam Ranganathan <srangana at redhat.com>
wrote:

> On 08/14/2018 02:28 PM, Shyam Ranganathan wrote:
> > 2) Branching date: (Monday) Aug-20-2018 (~40 days before GA tagging)
>
> We are postponing branching to 2nd week of September (10th), as the
> entire effort in this release has been around stability and fixing
> issues across the board.
>
> Thus, we are expecting no net new features from hereon till branching,
> and features that are already a part of the code base and its details
> are as below.
>
> >
> > 3) Late feature back port closure: (Friday) Aug-24-2018 (1 week from
> > branching)
>
> As stated above, there is no late feature back port.
>
> The features that are part of master since 4.1 release are as follows,
> with some questions for the authors,
>
> 1) Changes to options tables in xlators (#302)
>
> @Kaushal/GD2 team, can we call this complete? There maybe no real
> release notes for the same, as these are internal in nature, but
> checking nevertheless.
>
> 2) CloudArchival (#387)
>
> @susant, what is the status of this feature? Is it complete?
> I am missing user documentation, and code coverage from the tests is
> very low (see:
> https://build.gluster.org/job/line-coverage/485/Line_20Coverage_20Report/
> )
>
> 3) Quota fsck (#390)
>
> @Sanoj I do have documentation in the github issue, but would prefer if
> the user facing documentation moves to glusterdocs instead.
>
> Further I see no real test coverage for the tool provided here, any
> thoughts around the same?
>
> The script is not part of the tarball and hence the distribution RPMs as
> well, what is the thought around distributing the same?
>

I will start working on the packaging and glusterdocs for it right away.
Test coverage would be an ongoing activity.. since multiple scenario has to
be covered.


> 4) Ensure python3 compatibility across code base (#411)
>
> @Kaleb/others, last patch to call this issue done (sans real testing at
> the moment) is https://review.gluster.org/c/glusterfs/+/20868 request
> review and votes here, to get this merged before branching.
>
> 5) Turn on Dentry fop serializer by default in brick stack (#421)
>
> @du, the release note for this can be short, as other details are
> captured in 4.0 release notes.
>
> However, in 4.0 release we noted a limitation with this feature as follows,
>
> "Limitations: This feature is released as a technical preview, as
> performance implications are not known completely." (see section
> https://docs.gluster.org/en/latest/release-notes/4.0.0/#standalone )
>
> Do we now have better data regarding the same that we can use when
> announcing the release?
>
> Thanks,
> Shyam
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