[Gluster-Maintainers] [gluster-packaging] Release 4.0: Landing CentOS SIG packages for 4.0 on time!

[Niels de Vos]

On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 02:53:53PM -0500, Kaleb S. KEITHLEY wrote:
> On 01/11/2018 02:19 PM, Kaleb S. KEITHLEY wrote:
> > On 01/11/2018 01:50 PM, Shyam Ranganathan wrote:
> >> Hi Packaging team,
> >>
> >> CentOS SIG Gluster packages for new releases seem to land *late* on the
> >> SIG always.
> >>
> >> What do we (as in Gluster community) need to do to make it happen on
> >> time for 4.0?
> >>
> >> As this time around, and possibly in the future, we want to avoid this lag!
> > 
> > I've opened a BZ[1] to create the necessary tags. Once those are created
> > I'll follow up (with another BZ) to create the staging (is that the
> > right term?) directory/directories in the Centos Storage SIG.
> > 
> > Then, depending on how quickly those happen I'll either build a dummy
> > glusterfs-4.0 package, and/or an actual RC/Alpha/Beta package.
> > 
> > This should prime the pump, so to speak, for the actual release.
> 
> And looking through the old BZs I see that Niels has had to open BZs on
> several occasions to poke the CentOS ops to push packages to buildlog
> and to the mirrors. (There doesn't seem to be a lot of automation in place.)
> 
> We'll need to pay close attention and should probably open BZs —
> aggressively — if necessary.

I've tagged the dependencies and additional packages already in the
newly created storage7-gluster-40-testing tag. Because the tags is not
empty anymore, the CentOS team can setup the syncing of the packages to
the test repository. This has been requested in
https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=14363 .

In addition to that, a centos-release-gluster40 package is now prepared
as well:
  - https://github.com/CentOS-Storage-SIG/centos-release-gluster40
  - http://cbs.centos.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=291866

Once the repository is available at
https://buildlogs.centos.org/centos/7/storage/x86_64/ , the RPM from the
CBS can be used for testing. Note that there is no glusterfs-4.0 package
yet, we'll build that once the first Alpha release is tagged.

Niels