[gluster-packaging] Release 5.4: Earlier than Mar-10th

[Kaleb Keithley]

packages will get built one way or another. :-)

I've mentioned this on numerous occasions but it seems to largely fall on
deaf ears: we need other people to step up and take over some of the burden
of building community packages.  Or we need to cut back on the number of
community packages that we build.

Because $dayjob

On Fri, Feb 8, 2019 at 9:55 AM Shyam Ranganathan <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 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
>
> Thanks,
> Shyam
>
> [1] Release 5.4 tracker:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=glusterfs-5.4
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