On 12/30/2015 01:22 PM, Hubbard Jordan wrote: > I also have a broader question to go with the specific one: We > (at iXsystems) were attempting to engage with some of the Red Hat > folks back when the FreeBSD port was first done, in the hope of > getting it more “officially supported” for FreeBSD and perhaps even > donating some more serious stress-testing and integration work for > it, but when those Red Hat folks moved on we lost continuity and > the effort stalled. Who at Red Hat would / could we work with in > getting this back on track? We’d like to integrate glusterfs with > FreeNAS 10, and in fact have already done so but it’s still early > days and we’re not even really sure what we have yet. > Hi, To me, from a community standpoint, to be "officially supported" I'd venture to say that what it takes is being visibly involved in the project. That can take many forms, e.g., do regular builds on your platform, submit bug reports (to our bugzilla) and associated fixes (to our gerrit), implement and contribute new features, review other people's patches in gerrit, build packages for your platform, evangelize GlusterFS, answer questions in IRC and the mailing lists, etc., etc. Everything that goes on the community is done by volunteers. There are no Red Hat employees whose sole responsibility is to work on Community GlusterFS. (Excepting our Community Manager, Amye.) The Red Hat mantra is "upstream first" so every feature and every bug fix that Red Hat employees work on does indeed go into Community GlusterFS first; a lot does get done as a side effect of that policy, but nobody should take it for granted that _everything_ (or anything) will just get done. Nobody would say no to having serious stress testing and integration work. If it plugs into our current gerrit and jenkins infrastructure, so much the better. If there are people in your community who can help maintain and/or grow our infrastructure, we could use a lot of help there. With that level of involvement, I could imagine eventually FreeBSD having more of a, I don't know, for lack of a better word, 'standing' in the GlusterFS community. We do compile every patch on FreeBSD to ensure that we don't break that level of portability, but that's the extent of it. Maybe elevated to running regressions, as we do for NetBSD, which has a bit of a legacy standing in the community due to Emmanuel Dreyfus' long time participation. Anyway, that's my opinion. (Emphasis on my and opinion. Perhaps others will weigh in with their opinions.) I look forward to your involvement in the community. Look for us at FOSDEM, a couple of us will be there. -- Kaleb _______________________________________________ Gluster-devel mailing list Gluster-devel@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-devel
