On 01/08/2016 08:58 AM, Kaleb S. KEITHLEY wrote: > 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. Just to be clear, by "our infrastructure" I mean Community GlusterFS infrastructure. > > 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
