Community Meeting 2016 11 16

Gluster Community Meeting

• Date : 2016-11-16
• Host : kshlm
• Logs :
  • Minutes: https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/gluster-meeting/2016-11-16/weekly_community_meeting_2016-11-16.2016-11-16-12.02.html
  • Minutes (text): https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/gluster-meeting/2016-11-16/weekly_community_meeting_2016-11-16.2016-11-16-12.02.txt
  • Log: https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/gluster-meeting/2016-11-16/weekly_community_meeting_2016-11-16.2016-11-16-12.02.log.html

General information

• Location : #gluster-meeting on Freenode (webchat)
• Time : For meetings 30th March (2016) and later
  • 17:30 IST (Bangalore, etc.)
  • 14:00 CEST (Amsterdam, etc.)
  • 13:00 BST (UK)
  • 12:00 UTC
  • 8:00 AM US/Canada EDT
  • 5:00 AM US/Canada PDT
  • or in your local shell/terminal: date -d "12:00 UTC"
• Instructions to hosts
  • start with #startmeeting Gluster community weekly meeting
  • use #topic, #action, #info and #agreed commands to make notes in the minutes
  • end the meeting with #endmeeting
  • when done, paste the links to the logs in this etherpad
  • archive this etherpad, copy the etherpad contents as is (ie. markdown) and create a new wiki with the markdown content and name it "Community Meeting YYYY-MM-DD"
  • create the next weeks agenda by copying the template (in markdown)
  • update the gluster-users and gluster-dev mailing lists with the meeting minutes, and also share the link to next weeks agenda

Topics of Discussion

Next weeks meeting host

• nigelb

Open floor

• FSFE etherpad replacement
• Try hackmd.io for next meeting
• [nigelb] What is a release?
• Tagging?
• Blog announcement?
• What constitutes a release?
• Just tag+tarball
• Packages, docs, upgrade guides also
• [nigelb] release is not 'when our work is done' but 'when users can consume our work
• Discussion will be continued on mailing lists

Updates

NOTE : Updates will not be discussed during meetings. Any important or noteworthy update will be announced at the end of the meeting

Releases

GlusterFS 4.0

• Tracker bug : https://bugzilla.redhat.com/showdependencytree.cgi?id=glusterfs-4.0
• Roadmap : https://www.gluster.org/community/roadmap/4.0/
• Updates:
  • GD2 - https://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2016-November/051532.html

GlusterFS 3.9

• Maintainers : pranithk, aravindavk, dblack
• Current release : 3.9.0rc2
• Next release : 3.9.0
  • Release date : End of Sept 2016
• Tracker bug : https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=glusterfs-3.9.0
• Open bugs : https://bugzilla.redhat.com/showdependencytree.cgi?maxdepth=2&id=glusterfs-3.9.0&hide_resolved=1
• Roadmap : https://www.gluster.org/community/roadmap/3.9/
• Updates:
  • Release has been tagged. Announcement pending.

GlusterFS 3.8

• Maintainers : ndevos, jiffin
• Current release : 3.8.5
• Next release : 3.8.6
  • Release date : 10 November 2016 - probably Friday 18
• Tracker bug : https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=glusterfs-3.8.6
• Open bugs : https://bugzilla.redhat.com/showdependencytree.cgi?maxdepth=2&id=glusterfs-3.8.6&hide_resolved=1
• Updates:
  • 3.8.6 has been delayed a little due to maintainer travelling
  • a little more delay for the 3.9 release ([ndevos] building packages and setting up CentOS Storage SIG repo)

GlusterFS 3.7

• Maintainers : kshlm, samikshan
• Current release : 3.7.17
• Next release : 3.7.18
  • Release date : 30 November 2016
• Tracker bug : https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=glusterfs-3.7.18
• Open bugs : https://bugzilla.redhat.com/showdependencytree.cgi?maxdepth=2&id=glusterfs-3.7.18&hide_resolved=1
• Updates:
  • None this week.
  • Still on track for 3.7.18.

Related projects and efforts

Community Infra

• Now that 3.9 is released, we'll begin work on improving Gerrit, including upgrading the host VM to Centos 7.
• http://fstat.gluster.org/ is live!
• [nigelb] Progress on dbench test issues - seems to be a write-ahead bug

Samba

• None

Ganesha

• None

Containers

• None

Testing

• None

Others

• [atinm] Updates on GlusterD-1.0 https://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2016-November/051529.html

Action Items from last week

• Saravanakmr will take up the task for finding and collecting all gluster etherpads on FSFE etherpad.
• Mail sent. https://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2016-November/051450.html
• kshlm will ask for feedback on the trial run of the new meeting format
• Not done.
• kshlm to send out an email about Etherpad+Wiki after it's done for the first time.
• Not done.

Announcements

New announcements

None

Regular announcements

• If you're attending any event/conference please add the event and yourselves to Gluster attendance of events: http://www.gluster.org/events (replaces https://public.pad.fsfe.org/p/gluster-events)
• Put (even minor) interesting topics on https://public.pad.fsfe.org/p/gluster-weekly-news
• Remember to add your updates to the next meetings agenda.