Lots of people at Vault this week!
Last month's newsletter included a list of all of the Gluster related talks, so if you're here, come by the Red Hat booth and say hi!
New things:
We've got a new Events (https://www.gluster.org/events/) page to replace the publicpad.
(https://public.pad.fsfe.org/p/gluster-events) - Feel free to add a PR updating the markdown page with your event!
Highlights from this past month's mailing lists:
++ gluster-users ++
Taira Hajime announced https://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2016-April/026193.html the general availability of Glubix 1.4 with support for Zabbix Server 3.0
Rajesh suggested using “--mode=script” option in order to enable non interactive use of gluster snapshot delete. More at https://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2016-April/026178.html
The 3.7.10 release continued to create conversations https://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2016-April/026157.html on the list https://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2016-April/026164.html
Raghavendra Talur picked up a conversation thread on GlusterFS on HPC cluster at https://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2016-March/025595.html as this has been requested earlier
++ gluster-devel ++
Atin discussed https://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2016-March/048926.html the topic of brick port allocation by GlusterD and proposed a patch which adopts an approach similar to snapd
With the 3.8 release process being more firm about the need to have well written features pages, there appear to be a subset of features which are now “at risk” https://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2016-April/049063.html While 30Apr is the date by which this needs to be completed, both Niels and Amye urge feature owners to work on squaring things away.
Jiffin reminded the feature owners about adding tests to the DiSTAF https://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2016-April/049104.html With the framework having additional maintainers and more active development https://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-infra/2016-April/002075.html inclusion of test cases by 30Apr is a requirement for consideration of 3.8 release feature completion
The location of the DiSTAF tests received a fair amount of conversation https://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2016-April/049057.html intending to ensure that helper libraries and tests are appropriately located to help packaging and wider adoption of the framework itself.
Karthik Subrahmanya provided an update https://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2016-April/049029.html on his work on the WORM feature. Along with filing a bug I have filed a bug in RHBZ #1326308 which now blocks the 3.8 release
Kaushal provided additional context around the 3.7.10 release https://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2016-April/049017.html mentioning in detail the regression (which was also present in 3.7.9)
Vijay had asked for additional detail about coherence issues in context of the SELinux client support in GlusterFS design https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs-specs/blob/master/accepted/SELinux-client-support.md which Manikandan had put up for review. Manikandan explained https://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2016-April/049099.html that the work continues on invalidating the xattrs through the Upcall Infrastructure which would handle the coherence issues.
https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs-specs/blob/master/under_review/quota-enhancements.md is a design document posted by Manikandan https://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2016-April/049077.html intended to improve the quota enable/disable processes. A patch is also under review http://review.gluster.org/#/c/12952/
++ gluster-maintainers ++
Amye announced https://www.gluster.org/pipermail/maintainers/2016-March/000520.html that week of 28Mar would have the Jenkins infrastructure moved from iWeb hosting to Red Hat’s data centers. Since this has potential impact on 3.7.10 release, the announcement was intended to seek agreement and make the necessary changes. Michael Scherer reported back https://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-infra/2016-March/002045.html that the migration was completed without hassles
Niels alerted the maintainers https://www.gluster.org/pipermail/maintainers/2016-March/000526.html about not merging patches with topic ‘rfc’ in Gerrit. He mentioned that without a bug to track the changes it is difficult to build a query which lists all the changes against the particular feature
Atin's note <https://www.gluster.org/pipermail/maintainers/2016-April/000549.html> about a regression around GlusterD failing to restart when volume has snapshots spawned an entire thread to the feasibility of the 3.7.10 release. Subsequently, a decision was arrived at to work towards a 3.7.11 addresses this topic. More at <https://www.gluster.org/pipermail/maintainers/2016-April/000589.html>
Small kerfuffle around a recent change which caused failures to build artifacts was discussed at https://www.gluster.org/pipermail/maintainers/2016-April/000562.html the issue arose from the failures being not reported back to gerrit. Since the report, it has been addressed and things are back to normal
The 3.7 release has not been without drama. Kaushal reported another set of regressions, this time with management encryption enabled, daemons such as NFS etc would not start. More at https://www.gluster.org/pipermail/maintainers/2016-April/000604.html and this is where the 3.7.11 release dates received some amount of serious consideration and planning
Pranith’s intent to include the multi-threaded self-heal patch in a 3.7.12 release https://www.gluster.org/pipermail/maintainers/2016-April/000628.html received a good amount of discussion with Niels highlighting the concern around back-porting this to a 3.7 release because potential undiscovered issues are something which is expected for new features and thus contain a risk.
Gluster Top 5 Contributors in the last 30 days:
Niels de Vos, Vijaykumar M , Pranith Kumar K, Atin Mukherjee, Sakshi Bansal
Upcoming CFPs:
LISA:(https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa16/call-for-participation) April 25th
LinuxCon North America: (http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/linuxcon-north-america/program/cfp) April 26th
LinuxCon Japan: (http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/linuxcon-japan/program/cfp) May 6
LinuxCon Europe (http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/linuxcon-europe/program/cfp): June 17
Amye Scavarda | amye@xxxxxxxxxx | Gluster Community Lead
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