[Gluster-Maintainers] Release 3.11.1: Scheduled for 20th of June

[Shyam]

On 06/20/2017 08:41 AM, Pranith Kumar Karampuri wrote:
>     1) Are there any pending *blocker* bugs that need to be tracked for
>     3.11.1? If so mark them against the provided tracker [1] as blockers
>     for the release, or at the very least post them as a response to this
>     mail
>
>
> I added https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1463250 as blocker
> just now for this release. We just completed the discussion about
> solution on gluster-devel. We are hoping to get the patch in by EOD
> tomorrow IST. This is a geo-rep regression we introduced because of
> changing node-uuid behavior. My mistake :-(

As we wait for the final patch in this series that fixes the mentioned 
bug above, I wanted to state something around regression here.

The patches that introduced the problem, were present in 3.11.0 itself, 
hence this is not a regression for 3.11.1

   - https://review.gluster.org/#/c/17312/
   - https://review.gluster.org/#/c/17336/
   - https://review.gluster.org/#/c/17318/

Delay to the release should be based on regressions, and blockers (think 
data corruption, cores, larger than sustainable breakage of code).

In this instance, I think we over reacted, and hence wanted to take the 
opportunity to point the same out (I should have done my work as well in 
checking when this problem was introduced etc. before delaying the release).

In the future, we would like to stick with the release calendar, as that 
is published and well known, than delay releases. Hence, when raising 
blockers for a release or delaying the release, expect more questions 
and diligence required around the same in the future.

Thanks,
Shyam