[Gluster-Maintainers] Maintainers acks needed for 3.7.12

[Raghavendra Gowdappa]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kaushal M" <kshlmster at gmail.com>
> To: maintainers at gluster.org, "Vijay Bellur" <vbellur at redhat.com>
> Cc: "Pranith Kumar Karampuri" <pkarampu at redhat.com>, "Raghavendra Gowdappa" <rgowdapp at redhat.com>, "Xavier Hernandez"
> <xhernandez at datalab.es>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2016 7:07:56 PM
> Subject: Re: Maintainers acks needed for 3.7.12
> 
> On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 7:37 PM, Kaushal M <kshlmster at gmail.com> 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.
> 
> I'll be doing the release on behalf of Vijay.
> I had hoped to do the release right now (22-Jun-2016 UTC 1330), but
> I'm postponing it to tomorrow, to give my hurting hand some rest.
> 
> This gives maintainers a little more time to provide the missing ACKs.
> 
> ACKs have been obtained for GlusterD, Geo-Rep, Snapshots, Tiering,
> NFS, transports(tcp,rdma).
> 
> Quota has an iffy ACK, as 2 more changes have been requested for
> merging, but they don't have proper all the flags to be merged yet.
> The ACK doesn't say if these 2 changes were included.
> 
> Major components yet to recieve ACKs are AFR, DHT and EC.
> 
> DHT also has a couple of changes that were requested for merging. I've
> merged one, the other doesn't have all the flags.

Sorry for being illiterate on the flags. What are the flags needed? I can try to get them.

> 
> 
> ~kaushal
> 
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Kaushal
> >
> > [1] https://www.gluster.org/pipermail/maintainers/2016-April/000679.html
> > [2] https://www.gluster.org/pipermail/maintainers/2016-June/000847.html
>