----- Original Message ----- > On 12/06/2012 05:17 AM, John Mark Walker wrote: > > Vijay, Avati, Jeff, et al - was just wondering when we can expect > > the first beta for 3.4 to drop. > > We need more testing before we can arrive at the beta. Ideally, we > would > like to hit beta this month. Thanks, Vijay. Looking forward to the next QA release. > I have tried to enumerate the new features that are going to be in > GlusterFS 3.4 here: > > http://www.gluster.org/community/documentation/index.php/Features34 Excellent, thanks. 2 questions: - under VM image store improvements, is this the BD xlator, or are there other things? I'd like to create a description page with some detail - there's been a lot of work on UFO/gluster-swift - do you know if this will be included? Or will that be released separately on its own schedule? > > Help for testing and documentation of these features would be very > useful. More feedback is very much essential for converging on beta > and > the release itself. If nightly qa releases are going to help, we can > consider doing that as well. I think the way we're releasing QA builds is fine - we'll just need to promote them more to the wider community. Thanks! JM