[Gluster-Maintainers] Please pause merging patches to 3.9 waiting for just one patch

[Pranith Kumar Karampuri]

On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 1:11 PM, Atin Mukherjee <amukherj at redhat.com> wrote:

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> On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 1:04 PM, Pranith Kumar Karampuri <
> pkarampu at redhat.com> wrote:
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>> I am trying to understand the criticality of these patches. Raghavendra's
>> patch is crucial because gfapi workloads(for samba and qemu) are affected
>> severely. I waited for Krutika's patch because VM usecase can lead to disk
>> corruption on replace-brick. If you could let us know the criticality and
>> we are in agreement that they are this severe, we can definitely take them
>> in. Otherwise next release is better IMO. Thoughts?
>>
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> If you are asking about how critical they are, then the first two are
> definitely not but third one is actually a critical one as if user upgrades
> from 3.6 to latest with quota enable, further peer probes get rejected and
> the only work around is to disable quota and re-enable it back.
>
> On a different note, 3.9 head is not static and moving forward. So if you
> are really looking at only critical patches need to go in, that's not
> happening, just a word of caution!
>

Yes this is one more workflow problem. There is no way to stop others from
merging it in the tool. I once screwed Kaushal's release process by merging
a patch because I didn't see his mail about pausing merges or something. I
will send out a post-mortem about our experiences and the painpoints we
felt after 3.9.0 release.


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>> On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 12:56 PM, Atin Mukherjee <amukherj at redhat.com>
>> wrote:
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>>> Pranith,
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>>> I'd like to see following patches getting in:
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>>> http://review.gluster.org/#/c/15722/
>>> http://review.gluster.org/#/c/15714/
>>> http://review.gluster.org/#/c/15792/
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>>> On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 7:12 AM, Pranith Kumar Karampuri <
>>> pkarampu at redhat.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> hi,
>>>>       The only problem left was EC taking more time. This should affect
>>>> small files a lot more. Best way to solve it is using compound-fops. So for
>>>> now I think going ahead with the release is best.
>>>>
>>>> We are waiting for Raghavendra Talur's http://review.gluster.org/#/c/
>>>> 15778 before going ahead with the release. If we missed any other
>>>> crucial patch please let us know.
>>>>
>>>> Will make the release as soon as this patch is merged.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Pranith & Aravinda
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>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> ~ Atin (atinm)
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>> --
>> Pranith
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> ~ Atin (atinm)
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Pranith
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