Community Meeting 2016 11 02

Logs

• Minutes: https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/gluster-meeting/2016-11-02/weekly_community_meeting_nov_2,_2016.2016-11-02-12.00.html
• Minutes (text): https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/gluster-meeting/2016-11-02/weekly_community_meeting_nov_2,_2016.2016-11-02-12.00.txt
• Log: https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/gluster-meeting/2016-11-02/weekly_community_meeting_nov_2,_2016.2016-11-02-12.00.log.html

Topics of Discussion

Host for next week (DON'T FORGET)

• Next weeks meeting moderator: kshlm
• kkeithley will host the Nov 16 meeting

Open Floor

• Recognising community contributors(Manikandan Selvaganesh)
• https://glusterfs.biterg.io/app/kibana#/dashboard/Overview
• [nigelb] Are we clear on what is being asked for? What is the problem we are trying to solve
• People want to be rewarded for their contributions
• As a reward for their work make them maintainers
• Need to measure quality, not quantity.
  • Super tough
• nigelb will be taking discussion to mailing list
• Sending up EasyFix bugs(assigned with a owner) on mailing list so that new contributors can get started(May be?) (Manikandan Selvaganesh)
• Skipped again
• Glusto Job on Centos CI
• https://ci.centos.org/job/gluster_glusto
  • Job setup, needs tweaking to get it 100% functional.
• Leverage learaning from 3.9 test day into some tests.
• FSFE pad service is about to be decomissioned. Need to find an alternative.
• https://wiki.fsfe.org/Teams/System-Hackers/Decommissioning-Pad
• Pads will turn read-only on Dec 1. And will be deleted Feb 1.
• Options
  • beta.etherpad.org
  • https://pad.riseup.net/
  • https://github.com/ether/etherpad-lite/wiki/Sites-that-run-Etherpad-Lite
• Etherpad for live editing documents + Github wiki for permanent records.
• First find and preserve existing pads. Pick alternative later.

Updates

GlusterFS 4.0

• GD2 (kshlm)
• Volgen-2.0 design and prototype started. More info at https://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2016-October/051297.html
• Multiplexing
• https://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2016-November/051364.html

GlusterFS 3.9

• None

GlusterFS 3.8

• None

GlusterFS 3.7

• Release planned for later today. Got delayed because of holidays in India.

GlusterFS 3.6

• None

Other initiatives and related projects

Infrastructure

• Ongoing work on getting Glusto jobs on Centos CI
• Network issue between Centos CI and review.gluster.org

NFS Ganesha

• ganesha 2.4.1 and (lib)ntirpc-1.4.3) were released. packages in Fedora Updates-Testing (soon Updates) and Ubuntu Launchpad. Other distributions soon.
• now working on 2.5, emphasis on performance and memory consum

Samba

• Regression caused due to https://review.gluster.org/#/c/15332/ is being tracked by upstream bug https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12404 so that the fix from master gets backported to release branches.

Heketi/Containers

• We have a new repo under Gluster org in Github for anything and everything related to Gluster as storage in containers. Refer to https://github.com/gluster/container-storage

Testing/Glusto

• https://ci.centos.org/job/gluster_glusto

Last weeks AIs

• rastar_afk/ndevos/jdarcy to improve cleanup to control the processes that test starts.
• No updates
• atinm to poke 3.9 release mgrs to finish and release
• No updates
• obnox to starting discussion of Samba memory solutions
• No updates
• jdarcy to discuss dbench smoke test failures on email
• No updates

Other Updates

• amye sent out the monthly newsletter
• https://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2016-November/028920.html