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

[Raghavendra Gowdappa]

On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 2:24 PM Nithya Balachandran <nbalacha at redhat.com>
wrote:

> 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?
>>
>
Fix @ https://review.gluster.org/#/c/glusterfs/+/22189/

waiting on reviews. I am hoping to get this merged by end of this week and
send a backport.


>> - 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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