[Gluster-Maintainers] Request to approve backport of #18429 to release 3.10 and 3.12

[Niels de Vos]

On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 05:23:38PM +0530, Soumya Koduri wrote:
> Hi Shyam/Raghavendra/Jiffin,
> 
> #18429 [1] addresses a missing functionality in gfapi (since almost Day1)
> which is to be able to set lk_owner. This fix is now needed for integration
> of recent/upcoming upstream NFS-Ganesha releases with Gluster without which
> locking functionality over NFS shall be broken.
> 
> Since 3.13 shall be STM release, to be able to continue supporting existing
> stable gluster releases + NFS-Ganesha, I request you to approve backport of
> that fix to 3.10 and 3.12 releases. The fix is not intrusive and doesn't
> affect any other access protocol.
> 
> Once it gets approved, as suggested by Niels, I shall first change the
> symbol version of that new routine to 3.10 in master branch and then
> backport the changes to stable releases.

+1 from me, existing gfapi applications will not be affected. Adding a
new symbol in the library for stable versions has been done before.
Upgrading to a newer stable version works fine as long as an upgrade to
a recent minor update is done.

Niels


> 
> Thanks,
> Soumya
> 
> 
> [1] https://review.gluster.org/#/c/18429