[Gluster-devel] Maintainer meeting minutes : 1st Oct, 2018

[Yaniv Kaul]

On Tue, Oct 2, 2018, 8:21 AM Amar Tumballi <atumball at redhat.com> wrote:

> BJ Link
>
>    - Bridge: https://bluejeans.com/217609845
>    - Watch: https://bluejeans.com/s/eNNfZ
>
> <https://hackmd.io/yTC-un5XT6KUB9V37LG6OQ?both#Attendance>Attendance
>
>    - Jonathan (loadtheacc), Vijay Baskar, Amar Tumballi, Deepshikha,
>    Raghavendra Bhat, Shyam, Kaleb, Akarsha Rai,
>
> <https://hackmd.io/yTC-un5XT6KUB9V37LG6OQ?both#Agenda>Agenda
>
>    -
>
>    AI from previous week
>    - Status check on bi-weekly Bugzilla/Github issues tracker ? Any
>       progress?
>       - Glusto Status and update?
>    -
>
>    [added by sankarshan; possibly requires Glusto and Glusto-test
>    maintainers] Status of Test Automation
>    -
>       - Glusto and tests updates:
>    - Glusto focus in Py3 port, alpha/beta branch for py3 possibly by next
>       week, around 75% complete (ball park)
>          - client and server need to be the same version of py (2 or 3)
>          - Documentation and minor tweaks/polishing work
>       - New feature in py3 would be the log format, would be configurable
>       - Couple of issues:
>          - scandir needing gcc, fixed upstream for this issue
>          - cartplex
>          <https://github.com/loadtheaccumulator/glusto/commit/b4874812886d3727a800111ad6b5579860d56f72>
>       - Glusto tests:
>          - Priority is fixing the test cases, that are failing to get
>          Glusto passing upstream
>          - When running the tests as a suite, some tests are failing due
>          to cleanup not correct in all test cases
>          - Working on the above on a per component basis
>          - Next up is py2->3, currently blocked on Glusto for some parts,
>          certain other parts like IO modules are ported to py3
>          - Post Glusto, porting of tests would take 2 months
>          - Next: GD2 libraries, target Dec. to complete the work
>          - Testing Glusto against release-5:
>             - Can we run against RC0 for release-5?
>             - Requires a setup, can we use the same setup used by the
>             Glusto-tests team?
>
> I'd expect it to move to Ansible based setup.
Y.


>    -
>       -
>          -
>             - AI: Glusto-tests team to run against release-5 and help
>             provide results to the lists
>          - Some components are being deprecated, so priorotization of
>          correcting tests per component can leverage the same
>             - AI: Vijay to sync with Amar on the list
>          - Can we port Glusto and tests in parallel?
>             - Interface to Gluto remains the same, and hence the port can
>             start in parallel, but cannot run till Glusto port is ready, but first cut
>             Glusto should be available in week, so work can start.
>          -
>
>    Release 5:
>    - Py3 patches need to be accomodated
>          - Needs backports from master
>       - noatime needs to be merged
>       - gbench initial runs complete (using CentOS packages)
>       - glusto, upgrade tests, release notes pending
>       - Regression nightly issue handled on Friday, need to check health
>       - Mid-Oct release looks feasible as of now, with an RC1 by end of
>       this week or Monday next week
>    -
>
>    GD2 release:
>    - Can there be a production release, which just supports volume and
>       peer life-cycle, but no features?
>       - This may get us more users trying out, and giving feedback.
>       - Not every users are using all the glusterd features like geo-rep,
>       snapshot or quota.
>       - Can we take it 1 step at a time, and treat it as a new project,
>       and not a replacement ?
>       - Ref: gluster-user email on gd2 status
>       <https://lists.gluster.org/pipermail//gluster-users/2018-October/035012.html>
>       .
>       - AI: Take the discussion to mailing list
>       - [Vijay] If we make it as separate releases, will it impact
>       release of GCS?
>          - [Amar] I don’t think so, it would be more milestones for the
>          project, instead of just 1 big goal.
>       -
>
>    Distributed-regression testing:
>    - A few of the test is taking more time then expected.
>       - One of them is tests/bugs/index/bug-1559004-EMLINK-handling.t is
>       taking around 14 mins which adds up the overall time of running test suite
>       (not just in distributed environment but also in centos7-regression).
>       - Author of test or maintainer needs to look at it.
>    -
>
>    New Peer/Maintainers proposals ?
>    -
>
>    Round Table
>    - [Kaleb] CVE in golang packages, so we need to update the bundle of
>       GD2.
>
>
> --
> Amar Tumballi (amarts)
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