[Gluster-Maintainers] Maintainers acks needed for 3.7.12

[Aravinda]

regards
Aravinda

On 06/16/2016 12:29 PM, Kaushal M wrote:
> Where these patches merged in with Vijay's approval? Changes should
> ideally not be merged by other maintainers when release candidates are
> being tracked. This will make the release-maintainers job hard.
Yes, Informed Vijay about these patches.
http://www.gluster.org/pipermail/maintainers/2016-June/000835.html
>
> In any case, I guess for this time we can do it at the HEAD of
> release-3.7, which is commit dca4de3 right now.
>
> I request all maintainers to not merge anymore changes into
> release-3.7 till further notice. If you need any change merge, please
> inform the release-maintainer, who will take the call on merging it.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 11:24 AM, Aravinda <avishwan at redhat.com> wrote:
>> Thanks Kaushal for the reminder.
>>
>> Following patches merged in Geo-rep after v3.7.12rc1, which are required for
>> 3.7.12 since these are regressions caused after the merge of
>> http://review.gluster.org/#/c/14322/
>>
>> http://review.gluster.org/14641
>> http://review.gluster.org/14710
>> http://review.gluster.org/14637
>>
>> I will acknowledge the working of Geo-replication components with the above
>> mentioned patches. Let me know if that is fine.
>>
>> regards
>> Aravinda
>>
>>
>> On 06/15/2016 07:37 PM, Kaushal M wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> If anyone doesn't know about it yet, the release process for a release
>>> has changed. Refer to the mail thread [1] for more information.
>>>
>>> tl;dr, component maintainers need to now provide an acknowledgement
>>> that their component is ready to the release manager, for the manager
>>> to make the release. The maintainers are expected to test their
>>> components and make sure that it is not obviously broken. In the
>>> future, we expect to make this testing automated, which will require
>>> maintainers to provide these tests (using DiSTAF).
>>>
>>> Vijay, who's managing 3.7.12, sent out a call for acks [2], which
>>> hasn't recieved any acks apart from the Atin for GlusterD. It is
>>> possible that most of you missed this as it was part of another
>>> thread.
>>>
>>> I'm starting this thread as the official call for acks, so that it is
>>> more visible to all developers. I cc'd component maintainers (from
>>> MAINTAINERS) to make sure no one misses this.
>>>
>>> Use the tag v3.7.12rc1 to verify your components and provide your acks
>>> by replying to this thread.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Kaushal
>>>
>>> [1] https://www.gluster.org/pipermail/maintainers/2016-April/000679.html
>>> [2] https://www.gluster.org/pipermail/maintainers/2016-June/000847.html
>>