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

[Vijay Bellur]

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