[Gluster-users] [Gluster-devel] GSOC-2014 and the Gluster community

[Carlos Capriotti]

Hello, all.

I am a little bit impressed by the lack of action on this topic. I hate to
be "that guy", specially being new here, but it has to be done.

If I've got this right, we have here a chance of developing Gluster even
further, sponsored by Google, with a dedicated programmer for the summer.

In other words, if we play our cards right, we can get a free programmer
and at least a good start/advance on this fantastic.

Well, I've checked the trello board, and there is a fair amount of things
there.

There are a couple of things that are not there as well.

I think it would be nice to listen to the COMMUNITY (yes, that means YOU),
for either suggestions, or at least a vote.

My opinion, being also my vote, in order of PERSONAL preference:

1) There is a project going on, that consists on re-writing the stripe
module on gluster. This is specially importnt because it has

2) We have a recurring issue with split-brain solution. There is an entry
on trello asking/suggesting a mechanism that arbitrates this resolution
automatically. I pretty much think this could come together with another
solution that is file replication consistency check.





On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 5:36 PM, Kaushal M <kshlmster at gmail.com> wrote:

> It could be a new feature request. It should be solid enough for a
> developer to get behind it and offer to mentor the project (GSOC
> requires this). Have a look at the trello board I linked in the first
> mail. If you have an idea not already there, propose it on the mailing
> list and start a discussion in the community.
>
> ~kaushal
>
> On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 9:37 PM, Carlos Capriotti
> <capriotti.carlos at gmail.com> wrote:
> > These projects, do they have to be on-going ideas/features, or could
> them be
> > a (solid) feature request ?
> >
> > (Yes, the question is very basic, but I am new here. Sorry.)
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 3:15 PM, John Mark Walker <johnmark at gluster.org>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> I agree. At one time, Vipul (sp?) approached the list with the desire to
> >> do something, and I would support adding that under the fedora project
> >> umbrella, assuming that we have a mentor in place for his project - I've
> >> forgotten what it was, although I can dig it up in the gluster-user
> >> archives.
> >>
> >> I'd be interested in hearing about other projects that should be added.
> >>
> >> -JM
> >>
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> > On 03/12/2014 06:44 PM, Kaushal M wrote:
> >> > > We haven't had any noise regarding GSOC this year in the Gluster
> >> > > community and haven't done anything regarding it so far (AFAIK).
> >> > >
> >> > > The student registration for GSOC-2014 is closing on 21st March [1],
> >> > > so we still have a little over 1 week to do something.
> >> > >
> >> > > Ideally, with Gluster progressing from a project to an organization
> >> > > with multiple projects, we'd have liked to participate as our own
> >> > > organization this time, but it isn't possible. We can still
> >> > > participate as a project under the Fedora umbrella, as we've done
> >> > > previously.
> >> > >
> >> > > There are already two entries for GlusterFS in the Fedora ideas page
> >> > > for GSOC-2014 [2]. These have been copied over from the previous
> year.
> >> > > As these were skipped over last year, I feel that these ideas
> weren't
> >> > > particularly attractive to the students.
> >> > >
> >> > > This mail is a call to the community for new ideas (could be
> something
> >> > > from the trello backlog board [3]) and for mentors for these ideas,
> >> > > and after we have these done a publicity drive.
> >> > >
> >> > > Let's try to whatever is possible now to get on the GSOC train this
> >> > > year.
> >> > >
> >> > > ~kaushal
> >> > >
> >> > > [1] - https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2014
> >> > > [2] -
> >> > >
> >> > >
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Summer_coding_ideas_for_2014#Applications_for_programmers
> >> > > [3] - https://trello.com/b/mczS4DKw/glusterfs-backlog
> >> > >
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> >> > +1. Also it is a nice/right way to increase mind share among students.
> >> > Can we also discuss this in today's community meeting?
> >> >
> >> > -Lala
> >> >
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