[Gluster-Maintainers] Release 5.4: Earlier than Mar-10th

[Shyam Ranganathan]

Thank you all, merging the patches and tagging the release today.

Shyam
On 2/26/19 6:50 AM, Atin Mukherjee wrote:
> Milind - response inline.
> 
> Shyam - I'm not sure if you're tracking this. But at this point any
> blocker bugs attached to 5.4 should also have clones of release-6 and
> attached to the release tracker, otherwise we'll regress!
> 
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 5:00 PM Milind Changire <mchangir at redhat.com
> <mailto:mchangir at redhat.com>> wrote:
> 
>     On Fri, Feb 8, 2019 at 8:26 PM Shyam Ranganathan
>     <srangana at redhat.com <mailto:srangana at redhat.com>> wrote:
> 
>         Hi,
> 
>         There have been several crashes and issues reported by users on the
>         latest 5.3 release. Around 10 patches have been merged since 5.3
>         and we
>         have a few more addressing the blockers against 5.4 [1].
> 
>         The original date was March 10th, but we would like to
>         accelerate a 5.4
>         release to earlier this month, once all critical blockers are fixed.
> 
>         Hence there are 3 asks in this mail,
> 
>         1) Packaging team, would it be possible to accommodate an 5.4
>         release
>         around mid-next week (RC0 for rel-6 is also on the same week)?
>         Assuming
>         we get the required fixes by then.
> 
>         2) Maintainers, what other issues need to be tracked as
>         blockers? Please
>         add them to [1].
> 
>         3) Current blocker status reads as follows:
>         - Bug 1651246 - Failed to dispatch handler
>           - This shows 2 patches that are merged, but there is no patch that
>         claims this is "Fixed" hence bug is still in POST state. What other
>         fixes are we expecting on this?
>           - @Milind request you to update the status
> 
>     Bug 1651246 has been addressed.
>     Patch has been merged on master
>     <https://review.gluster.org/c/glusterfs/+/22221> as well as
>     release-5 <https://review.gluster.org/c/glusterfs/+/22237> branches.
>     Above patch addresses logging issue only.
> 
> 
> Isn't this something which is applicable to release-6 branch as well? I
> don't find https://review.gluster.org/#/c/glusterfs/+/22221/ in
> release-6 branch which means we're going to regress this in release 6 if
> this isn't backported and marked as blocker to release 6.
> 
> 
> 
>         - Bug 1671556 - glusterfs FUSE client crashing every few days with
>         'Failed to dispatch handler'
>           - Awaiting fixes for identified issues
>           - @Nithya what would be the target date?
> 
>         - Bug 1671603 - flooding of "dict is NULL" logging & crash of
>         client process
>           - Awaiting a fix, what is the potential target date for the same?
>           - We also need the bug assigned to a person
> 
>     Bug 1671603 has been addressed.
>     Patch has been posted on master
>     <https://review.gluster.org/c/glusterfs/+/22126> and merged on
>     release-5 <https://review.gluster.org/c/glusterfs/+/22127> branches.
> 
> 
> Are you sure the links are correct? Patch posted against release 5
> branch is abandoned? And also just like above, same question for
> release-6 branch, I don't see a patch?
> 
>     Above patch addresses logging issue only.
> 
> 
>         Thanks,
>         Shyam
> 
>         [1] Release 5.4 tracker:
>         https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=glusterfs-5.4
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> 
>     -- 
>     Milind
> 
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