On 2014-07-15 11:30, Niels de Vos wrote: > On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 06:05:25PM +0100, Justin Clift wrote: >> On 14/07/2014, at 4:20 PM, Anders Blomdell wrote: >>> On 2014-07-14 16:03, Vijay Bellur wrote: >>>> Hi All, >>>> >>>> I intend creating the 3.6 branch tomorrow. After that, the branch >>>> will be restricted to bug fixes only. If you have any major patches >>>> to be reviewed and merged for release-3.6, please update this >>>> thread. >>> Does this mean that https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1113050 >>> has no chance to get in (no patch for that yet, still trying to figure out >>> how things work inside gluster)? >> >> Sounds like that would be a bug fix, so it'd get applied to everything that >> it makes sense too. eg likely 3.6, 3.5, 3.7dev, etc. > > Indeed, if there is no patch available when release-3.6 gets branched, > bug fixes and (serious) usability improvements can get backported to the > 3.6 version. The process to do so has been documented here: > - http://www.gluster.org/community/documentation/index.php/Backport_Guidelines > > When the branching happened, the 3.6 release will be closed for new > feature enhancements. The goal is to stabilize the branch and not > introduce any complex/major changes anymore. Vijay will likely mention > this in his announcement of the release-3.6 branch too. > > There can be a thin line between 'usability bug' and 'feature'. If an > acceptable case is made for an improvement, I doubt it will have > difficulties getting included in any of the stable branches. > > <snip> >>> And I would really like to get http://review.gluster.org/8292, >> >> IPv6 support. Niels, have you had a change to look at this? Should we >> get this merged, and fix any bugs that turn up later? > > No, and unfortunately I will unlikely be able to look into that within > the next few weeks. I'd really like to see good IPv6 support in Gluster, > but for me it really is a long-term goal. OK, will have to keep my own version here then (some of my hosts are IPv6 only) since the current state of affairs, where you have to edit a lot of volfiles, etc in order to get it working is far too cumbersome. > Maybe the 'better peer identification' feature improves IPv6 support as > well. Some details and further pointers to discussions about it can be > found here: > - http://www.gluster.org/community/documentation/index.php/Features/Better_peer_identification Very little IPv6 there, but very useful for multi-homed machines (which I also want, but not as badly). /Anders -- Anders Blomdell Email: anders.blomdell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Department of Automatic Control Lund University Phone: +46 46 222 4625 P.O. Box 118 Fax: +46 46 138118 SE-221 00 Lund, Sweden _______________________________________________ Gluster-devel mailing list Gluster-devel@xxxxxxxxxxx http://supercolony.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-devel
