[Gluster-users] 2018 - Plans and Expectations on Gluster Community

[Atin Mukherjee]

On Tue, Jan 2, 2018 at 2:36 PM, Hetz Ben Hamo <hetz at hetz.biz> wrote:

> Hi Amar,
>
> If can say something about the development of GlusterFS - is that there
> are 2 missing things:
>
> 1. Breakage between releases. I'm "stuck" using GlusterFS 3.8 because
> someone support to enable NFS-Ganesha. from the gluster command has been
> vanished without anything mentioned in the error message what other
> commands replaces it. Judging from other people's answers - the answer is
> storhaug does it from now, but there are practically *0 Documentation* how
> to use it.
> 2. There's a new tool in glusterFS to enable automation called gdep[oy,
> but again, the documentation for it is pretty short, there isn't for
> example a config for 2 node replication cluster with NFS-Ganesha, one of
> the most popular configuration for testing so a person could help from this
> example how things do work.
> 3. The commercial product (RHGS) is "stuck" in the 3.3 days, is there any
> chance it will move forward to any of the last stable versions?
>

That's not true, RHGS 3.3 is not GlusterFS 3.3 rather it's a rebase to
glusterfs-3.8.4 + plenty of cherry picks from mainline. It's just how RHGS
chooses to maintain its version numbers.

Thanks


On Tue, Jan 2, 2018 at 4:15 AM, Amar Tumballi <atumball at redhat.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> First of all, happy new year 2018! Hope all of your wishes come true this
> year, and hope you will have time for contributing to Gluster Project this
> year too :-)
>
> As a contributor and one of the maintainers of the project I would like to
> propose below plans for Gluster Project, and please share your feedback,
> and comments on them.
>
>
>    - *Improved Automation to reduce the process burden*
>
> We started some effort in this direction already. The thought process is
> captured here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AFkZmRRDXRxs21GnGa
> uieIyiIiRZ-nTEW8CPi7Gbp3g/edit?usp=sharing
>
> We need your help to share experience from other projects, and help to
> automate most of it.
>
>    - *Use case driven documentation*
>
> Will be an on-going effort, but instead of focusing on more options,
> different way of doing things, we will try to keep one very well tested way
> in documentation.
>
> All other options, hacks etc will be moved into 'Advanced' section.
>
>    - *Participation, meetups in more conferences and events, across the
>    globe.*
>
> We will try to participate in more events, so users can interact with more
> developers, and express their concerns, suggestions, discuss ideas etc.
>
> We will be open to hear both good and bad things about project, so we can
> continue good things, and fix the things which are not going well. Do let
> us know about some events where you would like to see some of the
> developers, so we can see what can be done to arrange their travel.
>
>    - *Focus on Integrations with other projects/products.*
>
> In storage, it is better to be 100% (or close to it) fit for some use
> cases / few use cases, instead of trying to be good for everyone and
> solving around 90% issues in generic use-case. Hence we will try to get
> complete at certain use cases while continuing to get better overall.
>
> We will be happy to get contribution in this direction, and also will work
> on making sure project is integration friendly. We will take integration
> issues with priority, and would work with different communities to get this
> effort move on properly.
>
>
>    - *Continue with stable release cycles*
>
> Since last 4-5 releases, we have been sticking to timelines. We promise to
> keep this going. We will make Gluster 4.0 happen, and by 4.1 release, would
> like to see most of the community starts thinking about migration to 4.x
> versions.
>
> ----
>
> We are also working on many more 'tasks' in the meantime. If you need
> anything, feel free to send an email, and/or raise an issue in github.
>
> Once again, Wish you all happy new year 2018!
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Amar Tumballi (amarts)
>
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