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

[Shyam Ranganathan]

On 10/13/2017 07:53 AM, 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.

Considering changes to Ganesha and that the functionality will be broken 
in our releases, and further based on Neil's comments (which I agree 
with) I think we can backport this to existing LTM releases.

As 3.13 branching is early next week, please change the API version on 
master, such that we do not have a backport pending on 3.13 for the same :)

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