[Gluster-Maintainers] glusterfs-3.9rc1 has been released for testing

[Pranith Kumar Karampuri]

How is testing going? Any updates? Shall I set up an etherpad to track this?

On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 4:45 AM, Vijay Bellur <vbellur at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 11:21 AM, Pranith Kumar Karampuri
> <pkarampu at redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 8:41 PM, Niels de Vos <ndevos at redhat.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 09:18:14AM -0700, Amye Scavarda wrote:
> >> > On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 6:41 AM, Pranith Kumar Karampuri <
> >> > pkarampu at redhat.com> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > > Hi,
> >> > >
> >> > > We've tagged and released glusterfs-3.9rc1. This is the 1st Release
> >> > > Candidate for GlusterFS 3.9.0.
> >> > >
> >> > >  https://build.gluster.org/job/release/171/console
> >> > >
> >> > > http://bits.gluster.org/pub/gluster/glusterfs/src/
> glusterfs-3.9rc1.tar.gz
> >> > >
> >> > > The release-notes still need some work for a GA release:
> >> > >   https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/blob/release-3.9/
> >> > > doc/release-notes/3.9.0.md
> >> > >
> >> > > Once we have some useful release-notes, we can send out a
> notification
> >> > > to the users list and other more public channels.
> >> > >
> >> > > Packages for CentOS-7 are available from the Community Build System:
> >> > > https://cbs.centos.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=111151
> >> > >
> >> > > Other distributions may want to verify their packaging too.
> >> > >
> >> > > The current plan is to release 3.9.0 in the first few days of
> October.
> >> > >
> >> > > I'm going to strongly suggest that we not do this the first few days
> >> > > of
> >> > October, let's plan a release after Gluster Developer Summit. A great
> >> > many
> >> > of the community will be traveling, and we have a great opportunity to
> >> > test
> >> > further with a lot of us in the same room.
> >>
> >> I do not think any of the attendees have time during the Gluster
> >> Developer Summit. The schedule is quite packed, and at the same time
> >> LinuxCon and the Open Source Storage Summit take place. The days will be
> >> *very* busy already:
> >>   https://www.gluster.org/events/schedule2016/
> >>
> >> http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/linuxcon-europe/
> program/schedule
> >>
> >> http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/linuxcon-europe/
> extend-the-experience/co-located-events
> >>
> >> > Mid-October instead?
> >>
> >> I'd like to see us keeping our promise of doing a release every 3
> >> months. The initial schedule was to release before the end of September,
> >> moving it to after the summit and travelling (and additional Indian
> >> holidays?) does not look optimal to me.
> >
> >
> > If Aravinda and I see that the maintainers get back well before next
> Friday
> > with the test results, we will be happy to do the release on time.
> >
>
> +1. We need to review functional and performance test results before
> this release. I request maintainers to go beyond running *.t tests and
> run tests in a real cluster so that we catch obvious regressions
> before GA. Given that we do not plan to do (m)any minor releases in
> 3.9, it would be ideal to not have regressions in 3.9.0. Else we will
> end up consuming cycles spinning up minor releases.
>
> I would also like us to review our documentation to ensure:
>
>  - We have clear instructions on upgrading in release notes
>  - Admin guide is up to date with feature inclusions in 3.9
>  - 3.9 feature pages indicate actual status as of GA
>  - Clear messaging for users about this release (i.e. not LTS, upgrade
> only for checking out new features etc.)
>
> Thanks,
> Vijay
>



-- 
Pranith
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