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

[Shyam Ranganathan]

On 08/22/2018 02:03 PM, Shyam Ranganathan 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.

This is delayed for the following reasons,
- Stability of mux regressions
  There have been a few cores last week and we at least need an analysis
of the same before branching. Mohit, Atin and myself have looked at the
same and will post a broader update later today or tomorrow.

NOTE: Branching is not being withheld for the above, as we would
backport the required fixes, and post branching there is work to do in
terms of cleaning up the branch (gfapi, versions etc.) that takes some time.

- Not having the Gluster 5.0 found in version in bugzilla
This issue has been resolved with the bugzilla team today, so it is no
longer a blocker.

(read on as I still need information for some of the asks below)

> 
> 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.
> 

<snip>

> 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.

@Kaushal or GD2 contributors, ping!

> 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?

@Du ping!