[Gluster-users] [Gluster-Maintainers] [Gluster-devel] Release 3.11: Has been Branched (and pending feature notes)

Kaushal M kshlmster at gmail.com
Thu May 4 13:10:26 UTC 2017


On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 4:38 PM, Niels de Vos <ndevos at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 04, 2017 at 03:39:58PM +0530, Pranith Kumar Karampuri wrote:
>> On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 2:36 PM, Kaushal M <kshlmster at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > On Tue, May 2, 2017 at 3:55 PM, Pranith Kumar Karampuri
>> > <pkarampu at redhat.com> wrote:
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > On Sun, Apr 30, 2017 at 9:01 PM, Shyam <srangana at redhat.com> wrote:
>> > >>
>> > >> Hi,
>> > >>
>> > >> Release 3.11 for gluster has been branched [1] and tagged [2].
>> > >>
>> > >> We have ~4weeks to release of 3.11, and a week to backport features that
>> > >> slipped the branching date (May-5th).
>> > >>
>> > >> A tracker BZ [3] has been opened for *blockers* of 3.11 release. Request
>> > >> that any bug that is determined as a blocker for the release be noted
>> > as a
>> > >> "blocks" against this bug.
>> > >>
>> > >> NOTE: Just a heads up, all bugs that are to be backported in the next 4
>> > >> weeks need not be reflected against the blocker, *only* blocker bugs
>> > >> identified that should prevent the release, need to be tracked against
>> > this
>> > >> tracker bug.
>> > >>
>> > >> We are not building beta1 packages, and will build out RC0 packages once
>> > >> we cross the backport dates. Hence, folks interested in testing this
>> > out can
>> > >> either build from the code or wait for (about) a week longer for the
>> > >> packages (and initial release notes).
>> > >>
>> > >> Features tracked as slipped and expected to be backported by 5th May
>> > are,
>> > >>
>> > >> 1) [RFE] libfuse rebase to latest? #153 (@amar, @csaba)
>> > >>
>> > >> 2) SELinux support for Gluster Volumes #55 (@ndevos, @jiffin)
>> > >>   - Needs a +2 on https://review.gluster.org/13762
>> > >>
>> > >> 3) Enhance handleops readdirplus operation to return handles along with
>> > >> dirents #174 (@skoduri)
>> > >>
>> > >> 4) Halo - Initial version (@pranith)
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > I merged the patch on master. Will send out the port on Thursday. I have
>> > to
>> > > leave like right now to catch train and am on leave tomorrow, so will be
>> > > back on Thursday and get the port done. Will also try to get the other
>> > > patches fb guys mentioned post that preferably by 5th itself.
>> >
>> > Niels found that the HALO patch has pulled in a little bit of the IPv6
>> > patch. This shouldn't have happened.
>> > The IPv6 patch is currently stalled because it depends on an internal
>> > FB library. The IPv6 bits that made it in pull this dependency.
>> > This would have lead to a -2 on the HALO patch by me, but as I wasn't
>> > aware of it, the patch was merged.
>> >
>> > The IPV6 changes are in rpcsvh.{c,h} and configure.ac, and don't seem
>> > to affect anything HALO. So they should be easily removable and should
>> > be removed.
>> >
>>
>> As per the configure.ac the macro is enabled only when we are building
>> gluster with "--with-fb-extras", which I don't think we do anywhere, so
>> didn't think they are important at the moment. Sorry for the confusion
>> caused because of this. Thanks to Kaushal for the patch. I will backport
>> that one as well when I do the 3.11 backport of HALO. So will wait for the
>> backport until Kaushal's patch is merged.
>
> Note that there have been disucssions about preventing special vendor
> (Red Hat or Facebook) flags and naming. In that sense, --with-fb-extras
> is not acceptible. Someone was interested in providing a "site.h"
> configuration file that different vendors can use to fine-tune certain
> things that are too detailed for ./configure options.
>
> We should remove the --with-fb-extras as well, specially because it is
> not useful for anyone that does not have access to the forked fbtirpc
> library.
>
> Kaushal mentioned he'll update the patch that removed the IPv6 default
> define, to also remove the --with-fb-extras and related bits.

The patch removing IPV6 and fbextras is at
https://review.gluster.org/17174 waiting for regression tests to run.

I've merged the Selinux backports, https://review.gluster.org/17159
and https://review.gluster.org/17157 into release-3.11

>
> Thanks,
> Niels
>
>>
>>
>>
>> >
>> > >
>> > >>
>> > >>
>> > >> Thanks,
>> > >> Kaushal, Shyam
>> > >>
>> > >> [1] 3.11 Branch: https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/tree/release-3.11
>> > >>
>> > >> [2] Tag for 3.11.0beta1 :
>> > >> https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/tree/v3.11.0beta1
>> > >>
>> > >> [3] Tracker BZ for 3.11.0 blockers:
>> > >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=glusterfs-3.11.0
>> > >>
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>> > >
>> > >
>> > > --
>> > > Pranith
>> > >
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>>
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