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

[Soumya Koduri]

Thanks Niels & Shyam. Posted [1] to update API version in the master branch.

Thanks,
Soumya

[1] https://review.gluster.org/#/c/18522

On 10/13/2017 07:50 PM, Shyam Ranganathan wrote:
> 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