[Gluster-Maintainers] [Gluster-devel] Release 3.11: Has been Branched (and pending feature notes)

[Kaushal M]

On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 6:40 PM, Kaushal M <kshlmster at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 4:38 PM, Niels de Vos <ndevos at redhat.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, May 04, 2017 at 03:39:58PM +0530, Pranith Kumar Karampuri wrote:
>>> On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 2:36 PM, Kaushal M <kshlmster at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> > On Tue, May 2, 2017 at 3:55 PM, Pranith Kumar Karampuri
>>> > <pkarampu at redhat.com> wrote:
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>> > > On Sun, Apr 30, 2017 at 9:01 PM, Shyam <srangana at redhat.com> wrote:
>>> > >>
>>> > >> Hi,
>>> > >>
>>> > >> Release 3.11 for gluster has been branched [1] and tagged [2].
>>> > >>
>>> > >> We have ~4weeks to release of 3.11, and a week to backport features that
>>> > >> slipped the branching date (May-5th).
>>> > >>
>>> > >> A tracker BZ [3] has been opened for *blockers* of 3.11 release. Request
>>> > >> that any bug that is determined as a blocker for the release be noted
>>> > as a
>>> > >> "blocks" against this bug.
>>> > >>
>>> > >> NOTE: Just a heads up, all bugs that are to be backported in the next 4
>>> > >> weeks need not be reflected against the blocker, *only* blocker bugs
>>> > >> identified that should prevent the release, need to be tracked against
>>> > this
>>> > >> tracker bug.
>>> > >>
>>> > >> We are not building beta1 packages, and will build out RC0 packages once
>>> > >> we cross the backport dates. Hence, folks interested in testing this
>>> > out can
>>> > >> either build from the code or wait for (about) a week longer for the
>>> > >> packages (and initial release notes).
>>> > >>
>>> > >> Features tracked as slipped and expected to be backported by 5th May
>>> > are,
>>> > >>
>>> > >> 1) [RFE] libfuse rebase to latest? #153 (@amar, @csaba)
>>> > >>
>>> > >> 2) SELinux support for Gluster Volumes #55 (@ndevos, @jiffin)
>>> > >>   - Needs a +2 on https://review.gluster.org/13762
>>> > >>
>>> > >> 3) Enhance handleops readdirplus operation to return handles along with
>>> > >> dirents #174 (@skoduri)
>>> > >>
>>> > >> 4) Halo - Initial version (@pranith)
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>> > > I merged the patch on master. Will send out the port on Thursday. I have
>>> > to
>>> > > leave like right now to catch train and am on leave tomorrow, so will be
>>> > > back on Thursday and get the port done. Will also try to get the other
>>> > > patches fb guys mentioned post that preferably by 5th itself.
>>> >
>>> > Niels found that the HALO patch has pulled in a little bit of the IPv6
>>> > patch. This shouldn't have happened.
>>> > The IPv6 patch is currently stalled because it depends on an internal
>>> > FB library. The IPv6 bits that made it in pull this dependency.
>>> > This would have lead to a -2 on the HALO patch by me, but as I wasn't
>>> > aware of it, the patch was merged.
>>> >
>>> > The IPV6 changes are in rpcsvh.{c,h} and configure.ac, and don't seem
>>> > to affect anything HALO. So they should be easily removable and should
>>> > be removed.
>>> >
>>>
>>> As per the configure.ac the macro is enabled only when we are building
>>> gluster with "--with-fb-extras", which I don't think we do anywhere, so
>>> didn't think they are important at the moment. Sorry for the confusion
>>> caused because of this. Thanks to Kaushal for the patch. I will backport
>>> that one as well when I do the 3.11 backport of HALO. So will wait for the
>>> backport until Kaushal's patch is merged.
>>
>> Note that there have been disucssions about preventing special vendor
>> (Red Hat or Facebook) flags and naming. In that sense, --with-fb-extras
>> is not acceptible. Someone was interested in providing a "site.h"
>> configuration file that different vendors can use to fine-tune certain
>> things that are too detailed for ./configure options.
>>
>> We should remove the --with-fb-extras as well, specially because it is
>> not useful for anyone that does not have access to the forked fbtirpc
>> library.
>>
>> Kaushal mentioned he'll update the patch that removed the IPv6 default
>> define, to also remove the --with-fb-extras and related bits.
>
> The patch removing IPV6 and fbextras is at
> https://review.gluster.org/17174 waiting for regression tests to run.

This has now passed its tests. I don't want to merge my own patch, so
I'd like it if someone can merge it.

>
> I've merged the Selinux backports, https://review.gluster.org/17159
> and https://review.gluster.org/17157 into release-3.11
>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Niels
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> >
>>> > >
>>> > >>
>>> > >>
>>> > >> Thanks,
>>> > >> Kaushal, Shyam
>>> > >>
>>> > >> [1] 3.11 Branch: https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/tree/release-3.11
>>> > >>
>>> > >> [2] Tag for 3.11.0beta1 :
>>> > >> https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/tree/v3.11.0beta1
>>> > >>
>>> > >> [3] Tracker BZ for 3.11.0 blockers:
>>> > >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=glusterfs-3.11.0
>>> > >>
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>>> > >
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>> > > --
>>> > > Pranith
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