[gluster-packaging] [Gluster-Maintainers] glusterfs-5.4 released

[Shyam Ranganathan]

On 3/13/19 9:09 AM, Kaleb Keithley wrote:
> The v5.4 tag was made and a release job was run which gave us
> https://build.gluster.org/job/release-new/80/artifact/glusterfs-5.4.tar.gz.
> If the v5.4 tag is moved then there's a logical disconnect between the
> tag and _that_ tar file, or more accurately the files in that tar file. 
> 
> Shyam and I discussed the merits of releasing v5.5 versus respinning
> builds with patches.  Respinning builds with patches isn't uncommon. The
> difference in the amount of work between one or the other is negligible.
> In the end Shyam (mainly) decided to go with respinning with patches
> because a full up "release" for him is a lot more work. (And we both
> have other $dayjob things we need to be working on instead of endlessly
> spinning releases and packages.)

Considering all comments/conversations, I think I will tag a v5.5 with
the required commits and update the 5.4 release-notes to call it 5.5
with the added changes.

Give me a couple of hours :)

> 
> 
> On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 8:52 AM Amar Tumballi Suryanarayan
> <atumball at redhat.com <mailto:atumball at redhat.com>> wrote:
> 
>     I am totally fine with v5.5, my suggestion for moving the tag was if
>     we consider calling 5.4 with these two patches.
> 
>     Calling the release as 5.5 is totally OK, and we call it out
>     specifically in our version numbering scheme, as if something is
>     very serious, we can break 'release date' train.
> 
>     -Amar
> 
>     On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 6:13 PM Kaleb Keithley <kkeithle at redhat.com
>     <mailto:kkeithle at redhat.com>> wrote:
> 
>         The Version tag should be (considered) immutable. Please don't
>         move it.
> 
>         If you want to add another tag to help us remember this issue
>         that's fine.
> 
>         The other option which Shyam and I discussed was tagging v5.5.
> 
> 
>         On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 8:32 AM Amar Tumballi Suryanarayan
>         <atumball at redhat.com <mailto:atumball at redhat.com>> wrote:
> 
>             We need to tag different commit may be? So the 'git checkout
>             v5.4' points to the correct commit?
> 
>             On Wed, 13 Mar, 2019, 4:40 PM Shyam Ranganathan,
>             <srangana at redhat.com <mailto:srangana at redhat.com>> wrote:
> 
>                 Niels, Kaleb,
> 
>                 We need to respin 5.4 with the 2 additional commits as
>                 follows,
> 
>                 commit a00953ed212a7071b152c4afccd35b92fa5a682a (HEAD ->
>                 release-5,
>                     core: make compute_cksum function op_version compatible
> 
>                 commit 8fb4631c65f28dd0a5e0304386efff3c807e64a4
>                     dict: handle STR_OLD data type in xdr conversions
> 
>                 As the current build breaks rolling upgrades, we had
>                 held back on
>                 announcing 5.4 and are now ready with the fixes that can
>                 be used to
>                 respin 5.4.
> 
>                 Let me know if I need to do anything more from my end
>                 for help with the
>                 packaging.
> 
>                 Once the build is ready, we would be testing it out as
>                 usual.
> 
>                 NOTE: As some users have picked up 5.4 the announce
>                 would also carry a
>                 notice, that they need to do a downserver upgrade to the
>                 latest bits
>                 owing to the patches that have landed in addition to the
>                 existing content.
> 
>                 Thanks,
>                 Shyam
> 
>                 On 3/5/19 8:59 AM, Shyam Ranganathan wrote:
>                 > On 2/27/19 5:19 AM, Niels de Vos wrote:
>                 >> On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 02:47:30PM +0000,
>                 jenkins at build.gluster.org
>                 <mailto:jenkins at build.gluster.org> wrote:
>                 >>> SRC:
>                 https://build.gluster.org/job/release-new/80/artifact/glusterfs-5.4.tar.gz
>                 >>> HASH:
>                 https://build.gluster.org/job/release-new/80/artifact/glusterfs-5.4.sha512sum
>                 >>
>                 >> Packages for the CentOS Storage SIG are now available
>                 for testing.
>                 >> Please try them out and report test results on this list.
>                 >>
>                 >>   # yum install centos-release-gluster
>                 >>   # yum install --enablerepo=centos-gluster5-test
>                 glusterfs-server
>                 >
>                 > Due to patch [1] upgrades are broken, so we are
>                 awaiting a fix or revert
>                 > of the same before requesting a new build of 5.4.
>                 >
>                 > The current RPMs should hence not be published.
>                 >
>                 > Sanju/Hari, are we reverting this patch so that we can
>                 release 5.4, or
>                 > are we expecting the fix to land in 5.4 (as in [2])?
>                 >
>                 > Thanks,
>                 > Shyam
>                 >
>                 > [1] Patch causing regression:
>                 https://review.gluster.org/c/glusterfs/+/22148
>                 >
>                 > [2] Proposed fix on master:
>                 https://review.gluster.org/c/glusterfs/+/22297/
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>     -- 
>     Amar Tumballi (amarts)
>