[Gluster-Maintainers] Release 5: Branched and further dates

[Shyam Ranganathan]

Hi,

Updates on the release and shout out for help is as follows,

RC0 Release packages for testing are available see the thread at [1]

These are the following activities that we need to complete for calling
the release as GA (with no major regressions i.e):

1. Release notes (Owner: release owner (myself), will send out an
initial version for review and to solicit inputs today)

2. Testing dashboard to maintain release health (new, thanks Nigel)
  - Dashboard at [2]
  - We already have 3 failures here as follows, needs attention from
appropriate *maintainers*,
    (a)
https://build.gluster.org/job/regression-test-with-multiplex/871/consoleText
	- Failed with core: ./tests/basic/afr/gfid-mismatch-resolution-with-cli.t
    (b)
https://build.gluster.org/job/regression-test-with-multiplex/873/consoleText
	- Failed with core: ./tests/bugs/snapshot/bug-1275616.t
	- Also test ./tests/bugs/glusterd/validating-server-quorum.t had to be
retried
    (c)
https://build.gluster.org/job/regression-test-burn-in/4109/consoleText
	- Failed with core: ./tests/basic/mgmt_v3-locks.t

3. Upgrade testing
  - Need *volunteers* to do the upgrade testing as stated in the 4.1
upgrade guide [3] to note any differences or changes to the same
  - Explicit call out on *disperse* volumes, as we continue to state
online upgrade is not possible, is this addressed and can this be tested
and the documentation improved around the same?

4. Performance testing/benchmarking
  - I would be using smallfile and FIO to baseline 3.12 and 4.1 and test
RC0 for any major regressions
  - If we already know of any please shout out so that we are aware of
the problems and upcoming fixes to the same

5. Major testing areas
  - Py3 support: Need *volunteers* here to test out the Py3 support
around changed python files, if there is not enough coverage in the
regression test suite for the same

Thanks,
Shyam

[1] Packages for RC0:
https://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/maintainers/2018-September/005044.html

[2] Release testing health dashboard:
https://build.gluster.org/job/nightly-release-5/

[3] 4.1 upgrade guide:
https://docs.gluster.org/en/latest/Upgrade-Guide/upgrade_to_4.1/

On 09/13/2018 11:10 AM, Shyam Ranganathan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Release 5 has been branched today. To backport fixes to the upcoming 5.0
> release use the tracker bug [1].
> 
> We intend to roll out RC0 build by end of tomorrow for testing, unless
> the set of usual cleanup patches (op-version, some messages, gfapi
> version) land in any form of trouble.
> 
> RC1 would be around 24th of Sep. with final release tagging around 1st
> of Oct.
> 
> I would like to encourage everyone to test out the bits as appropriate
> and post updates to this thread.
> 
> Thanks,
> Shyam
> 
> [1] 5.0 tracker: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=glusterfs-5.0
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