[Gluster-Maintainers] [Gluster-devel] Release 4.0: Branched

[Shyam Ranganathan]

On 01/23/2018 03:17 PM, Shyam Ranganathan wrote:
> 4.0 release has been branched!
> 
> I will follow this up with a more detailed schedule for the release, and
> also the granted feature backport exceptions that we are waiting.
> 
> Feature backports would need to make it in by this weekend, so that we
> can tag RC0 by the end of the month.

Backports need to be ready for merge on or before Jan, 29th 2018 3:00 PM
Eastern TZ.

Features that requested and hence are granted backport exceptions are as
follows,

1) Dentry fop serializer xlator on brick stack
https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/397

@Du please backport the same to the 4.0 branch as the patch in master is
merged.

2) Leases support on GlusterFS
https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/350

@Jiffin and @ndevos, there is one patch pending against master,
https://review.gluster.org/#/c/18785/ please do the needful and backport
this to the 4.0 branch.

3) Data corruption in write ordering of rebalance and application writes
https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/308

@susant, @du if we can conclude on the strategy here, please backport as
needed.

4) Couple of patches that are tracked for a backport are,
https://review.gluster.org/#/c/19223/
https://review.gluster.org/#/c/19267/ (prep for ctime changes in later
releases)

Other features discussed are not in scope for a backports to 4.0.

If you asked for one and do not see it in this list, shout out!

> 
> Only exception could be: https://review.gluster.org/#/c/19223/
> 
> Thanks,
> Shyam
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