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

[Nithya Balachandran]

Adding Raghavendra G and Milind who are working on the patches so they can
update on when they should be ready.

On Fri, 8 Feb 2019 at 20:26, 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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