[Gluster-users] 3.8 Plan changes - proposal

[Vijay Bellur]

On 01/19/2016 10:36 PM, Bishoy Mikhael wrote:
> So what about IPv6?!
>

We are still tracking this for 3.8. The patch which provides this 
support does look good and after some more reviews I expect it to land 
in time for 3.8.

Regards,
Vijay

>
> On Tuesday, January 19, 2016, Vijay Bellur <vbellur at redhat.com
> <mailto:vbellur at redhat.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 01/11/2016 04:22 PM, Vijay Bellur wrote:
>
>         Hi All,
>
>         We discussed the following proposal for 3.8 in the maintainers
>         mailing
>         list and there was general consensus about the changes being a
>         step in
>         the right direction. Would like to hear your thoughts about the
>         same.
>
>         Changes to 3.8 Plan:
>         --------------------
>
>         1. Include 4.0 features such as NSR, dht2, glusterd2.0 & eventing as
>         experimental features in 3.8. 4.0 features are shaping up reasonably
>         well and it would be nice to have them packaged in 3.8 so that
>         we can
>         get more meaningful feedback early on. As 4.0 features mature,
>         we can
>         push them out through subsequent 3.8.x releases to derive iterative
>         feedback.
>
>         2. Ensure that most of our components have tests in distaf by 3.8. I
>         would like us to have more deterministic pre-release testing for
>         3.8 and
>         having tests in distaf should help us in accomplishing that goal.
>
>         3. Add "forward compatibility" section to all feature pages
>         proposed for
>         3.8 so that we carefully review the impact of a feature on all
>         upcoming
>         Gluster.next features.
>
>         4. Have Niels de Vos as the maintainer for 3.8 with immediate
>         effect.
>         This is a change from the past where we have had release maintainers
>         after a .0 release is in place. I think Niels' diligence as a
>         release
>         manager will help us in having a more polished .0 release.
>
>         5. Move out 3.8 by 2-3 months (end of May or early June 2016) to
>         accomplish these changes.
>
>         Appreciate your feedback about this proposal!
>
>
>     Since we have not come across any objections to this proposal, let
>     us go ahead and turn this into our plan of action.
>
>     Look forward to an exciting first release of Gluster.next!
>
>     Cheers,
>     Vijay
>
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