[Gluster-users] Gluster Monthly Newsletter, January 2015 Edition

[Pranith Kumar Karampuri]

On 01/19/2016 09:16 AM, Amye Scavarda wrote:
> We're kicking off an updated Monthly Newsletter, coming out mid-month.
> We'll highlight special posts, news and noteworthy threads from the
> mailing lists, events, and other things that are important for the
> Gluster community.
>
> == Community Survey Followup ==
> http://blog.gluster.org/2016/01/gluster-community-survey-report-2015/
>
> == News and Noteworthy Threads from the Mailing Lists ==
> ++ gluster-users ++
>
> Lindsay Mathieson and Krutika collaborated on testing sharding
> improvements and performance
> <https://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2015-December/024568.html>
> as part of Krutika's post on the improvements to sharding translator
> specific to the VM image store use case
>
> <https://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2015-December/024538.html>
> observations that the libgfapi based access to volumes are slower than
> FUSE received a bit of discussion including debugging. Further in this
> thread the specific workbench exhibiting the behavior was described
> <https://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2015-December/024648.html>
>
> Amye notes that in the interest of making the documentation usable a
> review of the MediaWiki based content was completed before plans to
> switch on the Github based wiki pages. More at
> <https://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2015-December/024583.html>
>
> Defect resolution discussion around diagnosing volume rebalance
> failure - <https://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2015-December/024604.html>.
> Sakshi and Susant work through the sequence of questions and responses
> in order to identify the root cause and provide resolution.
>
> ++ gluster-devel ++
> Vijay proposes a new plan for 3.8, looking to bring some 4.0 features
> into 3.8, testing in distaf, adding forward compatibility and naming a
> release manager for 3.8. This pushes out the timeline for 3.8 to end
> of May/early June. More at
> <http://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2016-January/047729.html>
>
> As part of his work on the eventing framework for Gluster, Samikshan
> posted a summary of the ideas and work completed. He has been working
> on ensuring notifications from each node is available for
> introspection as well as aggregating all the signals/notifications
> across a deployed cluster. More at
> <https://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2015-December/047251.html>
>
> Niels put together a high level task breakdown to support SELinux over
> FUSE mounts - <https://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2015-December/047262.html>.
> At present one cannot set a SELinux context over a FUSE mount as FUSE
> does not include support.
>
> Krutika has worked on the sharding feature for GlusterFS with specific
> focus on enabling the VM image store use case. Now she has provided a
> small note on the features and more technical description of the
> internals. <https://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2015-December/047268.html>
>
> Pranith has been using different forums to discuss the compound FOP
Along with Anuradha, soumya :-)
> (re)design ideas with the intent to reduce network round-trips. He
> puts together a first pass summary of his ideas at
> <https://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2015-December/047297.html>
> The post received extensive discussion with participation from both
> NFSv4 and SMB developers. The reviews were summed up in another draft
> and posted. This, in turn, had a number of queries from Jeff Darcy
> <https://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2016-January/047618.html>
>
> The design for the User and Group Quota support in GlusterFS has been
> posted for review
> <https://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2015-December/047315.html>
>
> Vijay expresses concern about the backlog in reviews
> <https://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2015-December/047330.html>
> and seeks to have some ideas as to how to create a way to reduce the
> backlog and make it more manageable.
>
> <https://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2015-December/047391.html>
> Luis Pabon and Sachidananda Urs collaborate to understand integration
> work between gDeploy and Heketi
>
> Atin followed up on the RFC call on the GlusterD2.0 ReST API design
> <https://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2015-December/047432.html>
>
> The test failure and hangs on NetBSD have been a topic of conversation
> through the month of December. This month Pranith and Krutika have
> volunteered time to help make the tests better for NetBSD. More at
> <https://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2016-January/047672.html>
>
> Atin requested the feature leads to update the Gluster 4.0 Roadmap
> Page <https://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2016-January/047626.html>
> with description of the features and specifications.
>
> Raghavendra Talur's work on some test profiling enabled a set of
> observations. Vijay responded with suggestions on using ramdisk for
> /var/lib/glusterd with the objective of improving latencies for the
> volume operations.
> <https://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2016-January/047554.html>
>
> ++ gluster-infra ++
> Raghavendra Talur initiates a discussion around enabling developers to
> build a test environment which is identical to the Gluster community
> test infrastructure. Detail and link to bugzilla at
> <https://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-infra/2015-December/001558.html>
>
> Michael Scherer ponders on moving the infrastructure management piece
> to Ansible. At present the Gluster community infrastructure uses Salt.
> Michael provides a well reasoned note on why the move to using Ansible
> is good - <https://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-infra/2016-January/001594.html>
>
> NetBSD tests and regressions come up for discussion -
> <https://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-infra/2016-January/001609.html>
>
> == Upcoming Events ==
> FOSDEM:
> * Gluster roadmap, recent improvements and upcoming features - Niels De Vos
> * Go & Plugins - Kaushal Madappa
> * Gluster Stand
> DevConf
> * small Gluster Developer Gathering
> * Heketi GlusterFS volume management - Lusis Pabon
> * Gluster roadmap, recent improvements and upcoming features - Niels De Vos
> FAST
>
> ==
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> Email amye at redhat.com.