[Gluster-Maintainers] [gluster-packaging] Requesting for an early 5.6 release

[Niels de Vos]

On Mon, Apr 08, 2019 at 10:04:30AM -0400, Shyam Ranganathan wrote:
> On 4/6/19 1:47 AM, Poornima Gurusiddaiah wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > We had a critical bug [1], that got introduced in gluster release 5.
> > There are users waiting on an update with the fix. Hence requesting for
> > an out of band release for 5.6. Myself and jiffin, volunteer to do some
> > tasks of the release- tagging(?) testing. But would need help with the
> > builds and other tasks.
> 
> Tagging and building a tarball needs rights on the release branch, also
> it takes about 10 minutes to do, hence I can take care of the same.
> 
> Packaging is still done by just 2 folks, so added the packaging list to
> this mail, to understand if they need any assistance and their time
> constraints.

Packaging for the CentOS Storage SIG does not take much time either. At
the moment I think only Kaleb and I have the permissions to do so. Still
waiting for other contributors to reply to Sankarshans email
https://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-infra/2019-March/005483.html

The other community packages that Kaleb singlehandedly builds takes
(much) more time. Contributors for those are very much wanted, I think.

I don't mind doing an early/extra CentOS Storage SIG build.

Niels


> 
> Post packaging, we test if the RPMS are fine, and upgrade from an older
> version. I use containers to test the same as detailed here [1]. Helping
> out with this step can be useful, and I will assume till I hear
> otherwise that you would taking care of the same for this minor release.
> 
> Other activities include,
> - prepare release notes
> - Upload release notes to the doc site
> - Announce the release
> - Close bugs fixed in the release post the announcement
> 
> Again, something I can take care of, and should take about 30 minutes
> overall.
> 
> Shyam
> 
> [1] Package testing: https://hackmd.io/-yC3Ol68SwaRWr8bzaL8pw#
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