[gluster-packaging] [Gluster-Maintainers] Release 4.0: RC0 build tomorrow (at risk)

[Shyam Ranganathan]

On 01/30/2018 03:23 PM, Shyam Ranganathan wrote:
> Hi Packaging team,
> 
> Preparation for RC0 is ongoing, I am waiting on scores for this patch
> [1] (removing experimental code from the release branch) to go through,
> and the following items to be resolved before tagging RC0.

Headline: branch is not ready for RC0 tagging today, we will be
reevaluating the situation again tomorrow morning Eastern TZ.

[1] is done and merged!

> 
> Devel/maintainers,
> 
> 1) https://review.gluster.org/#/c/18785/ needs a backport, which I have
> done [3] @niels/@jiffin please vote on the backport so that I know we
> are ready for this feature in 4.0.

Backport has all the regression votes, I need one of the authors to
confirm that the backport is valid and needs to be done, as I have
assumed as much.

I will possibly wait till tomorrow 9:00 AM Eastern, and merge this, and
we may have to deal with bugs before release is done.

> 
> 2) https://review.gluster.org/#/c/19223/ (protocol: utilize the version
> 4 xdr)

Further failure analysis is complete, and Amar has submitted additional
fixes, awaiting regressions (and then merge->backport->...) to be completed.

> 
> We need this for RC0, as this brings about the major protocol change in
> the code, and sooner we have this in a build that we can test the better.
> 
> At present I do not have cycles to look at the failure here, @amar let
> us know the status tomorrow, based on which we can take a call on RC0
> being tomorrow or postponed a day or two.
> 
> Other exceptions noted [2] are either in or is too late to get in at the
> moment, and hence are out of scope for 4.0.
> 
> Shyam
> 
> [1] Patch removing experimental code: https://review.gluster.org/#/c/19389/
> 
> [2] 4.0 exceptions awaited:
> http://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2018-January/054315.html
> 
> [3] Backport for lease APIs: https://review.gluster.org/#/c/19390/
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