[Gluster-Maintainers] Maintainers acks needed for 3.7.12

[Raghavendra Gowdappa]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Raghavendra Gowdappa" <rgowdapp at redhat.com>
> To: "Kaushal M" <kshlmster at gmail.com>
> Cc: maintainers at gluster.org
> Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2016 10:16:52 AM
> Subject: Re: [Gluster-Maintainers] Maintainers acks needed for 3.7.12
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Raghavendra Gowdappa" <rgowdapp at redhat.com>
> > To: "Kaushal M" <kshlmster at gmail.com>
> > Cc: maintainers at gluster.org
> > Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2016 10:10:22 AM
> > Subject: Re: [Gluster-Maintainers] Maintainers acks needed for 3.7.12
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > ----- 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.
> 
> Thanks to QE from Redhat, specifically "Krishnaram Karthick Ramdoss"
> <kramdoss at redhat.com> and "Anil Shah" <ashah at redhat.com>, we have some
> sanity tests being run on Quota and DHT (including the list of patches which
> I compiled). Once the tests are complete, I'll let you know the results.

DHT tests have passed. DHT rebalance tests are still running. The update is that it will take 12+ hours for the tests to complete.

> 
> > > 
> > > 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
> > > 
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