[Gluster-Maintainers] Release manager for GlusterFS 3.9 needed

[Pranith Kumar Karampuri]

On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 5:16 PM, Niels de Vos <ndevos at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 04:42:29PM +0530, Pranith Kumar Karampuri wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 4:41 PM, Niels de Vos <ndevos at redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 04:10:20PM +0530, Pranith Kumar Karampuri
> wrote:
> > > > hi,
> > > >        maintaining a release by single person does take a lot of time
> > > away
> > > > from development. Is it okay if two people maintain the release? If
> yes,
> > > > Aravinda and I would like to volunteer.
> > >
> > > Sure, sound good to me. For 3.8 Jiffin assisted with it, and that
> really
> > > helps :-)
> > >
> >
> > Oh, Thanks for all the work Jiffin!!
>
> And also thanks to Dustin Black who posted many patches that moved the
> release notes to the actual document in the sources.
>
> Dustin expressed some interest in assisting with 3.9 as well. Getting
> some additional help for tracking the status of features, including
> bugs, documentation, tests and media coverage is probably welcome? :)
>

Totally :-)


>
> Niels
>
> >
> >
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Niels
> > >
> > > >
> > > > On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 3:13 PM, Niels de Vos <ndevos at redhat.com>
> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Hello all!
> > > > >
> > > > > As GlusterFS 3.8 has been released, we need to start planning the
> 3.9
> > > > > release. It would be best if someone volunteers for this task so
> that
> > > we
> > > > > stick to the release schedule. 3.9 is planned to be released in
> three
> > > > > months, that would be September this year. With this release cycle
> the
> > > > > 3.9+1 release (Long Term Stable) will be in December. It really is
> > > > > important for our community of developers and users that we manage
> to
> > > > > stick to our plans.
> > > > >
> > > > > The immediate tasks for 3.9 are:
> > > > >
> > > > > - find/appoint/announce a release manager
> > > > > - gather features that developers want to see included
> > > > > - update the 3.9 roadmap [1]
> > > > > - open a glusterfs-3.9.0 tracker bug
> > > > > - attach feature implementation bugs to the tracker
> > > > > - get regular status updates from the developers of 3.9 features
> > > > > - make sure that all features are ready before the end of August
> > > > >
> > > > > These tasks should be relatively simple for any of the current
> > > > > maintainers. I'll be able to assist if needed. During this
> process, we
> > > > > should work together to document all of the steps so that future
> > > > > releases can follow the same workflow.
> > > > >
> > > > > So, who wants to take this on?
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks,
> > > > > Niels
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > 1. https://www.gluster.org/community/roadmap/3.9/
> > > > >
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> > > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Pranith
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Pranith
>



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Pranith
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