[gluster-packaging] [Gluster-Maintainers] glusterfs-4.0.0 released

[Niels de Vos]

On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 07:48:15AM -0700, Amye Scavarda wrote:
> Can we be assured that we'll have things settled in the SIG by tomorrow so
> that this can be consumed?

The following steps need to happen before the packages are easily
consumable:

1. packages need to be signed and pushed to the mirrors
   This is expected to happen tomorrow morning UK time.

2. centos-release-gluster40 needs to be included in CentOS Extras
   There is only a .el7 package for testing now, I'll do a .el6 package
   today too. These packages need to be signed+pushed to the mirrors,
   which we can request after (1) in the US afternoon.

3. (2) expects announcment emails to a CentOS list, in a particular
   format (see link in email below). I normally send out those emails
   and have the CentOS team review/approve them.

As soon as (2) is done, users should be able to consume the packages as
usual. At that time the email to announce at gluster.org can be sent out.
The announcement on the CentOS list (3) might be a little delayed as
that depends on the availability of the CentOS team.

> This is the biggest complaint we've gotten out of our last releases, not
> being able to consume this.

This time round, we already placed some packages in the gluster-4.0
repositories. That made it possible to do some initial syncing to the
mirrors, so we're less dependent on yet an other task that we need to
request from the CentOS folks. The repositories have existed for a while
without anyone asking/noticing about them, so this seems a workable
optimization for next releases.

Obviously doing the releases in the CentOS Storage SIG need someone to
initiate and work through them. Currently Kaleb and I do all of these,
and we welcome anyone who is serious about assisting with this!

Any further questions?

Niels


> - amye
> 
> On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 7:02 AM, Shyam Ranganathan <srangana at redhat.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > On 03/13/2018 09:39 AM, Niels de Vos wrote:
> > > On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 02:07:58PM -0700, Amye Scavarda wrote:
> > >> Cool!
> > >> We're ready to roll on this, here's our draft of the announcement:
> > >> https://hackmd.io/meFTm1KtRkWTvR2nWUchvw?view
> > >>
> > >> Anything else you need from Shyam and I?
> > >> We're targeting an announcement on Wednesday to make sure this can get
> > >> through the CentOS SIG.
> > >
> > > Announcements to the CentOS announce list are expected to have a certain
> > > format. Last time I sent out this:
> > >   https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/
> > 2017-December/022692.html
> > >
> > > The 4.0 announcement will need to mention similar points, and then it
> >
> > I did not understand the above, the 4.0 announcement is as in the Hackmd
> > page above, are you suggesting we follow a CentOS (storage SIG) announce
> > model? or, that we need to announce to gluster.org first and then you
> > would follow it up with an announce to the CentOS SIG?
> >
> > > can have a link to the announcement that is available on gluster.org
> > > somewhere.
> > >
> > > Thanks!