Maintainer Meeting minutes (7th Feb, 2018)

[Amar Tumballi <atumball@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Meeting date: 02/07/2018 (Feb 07th, 2018. 19:30IST, 14:00UTC, 09:00EST)

BJ Link

• Bridge: https://bluejeans.com/205933580
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Attendance

• [Sorry Note] Shyam, Atin, Amye, Niels (meeting conflicts)
• Nigel, Amar, kshlm, Xavi, Aravinda, Kotresh, Sunny, Deepshikha, Nithya, Milind

Agenda

• Action Items?

  • Emails on Regression Infra change proposal [DONE]
  • NetBSD - Smoke no longer voting [DONE]

• Gluster 4.0

  • Second last meeting before release
  • GD2
    • [Kaushal] Need to get us accepted into Fedora. Asked us to undbundle dependency. Most dependencies are via etcd, but since etcd is packaged, the deps are packaged. We’ll need to package at least 3 packages.
    • Pretty simple work to do. Kaushal will be maintaingin GD2 packages
    • Fedora bug for reference.
    • Kaushal working on updating the spec file.
    • [Aravinda] Integration with other gluster features is ongoing. Some patches merged and some are pending review.
    • GD2 releases will be concurrent to gluster RC releases. Release notes and docs need work.
  • FS features
    • [Amar] Date for cut off is already gone. Most features are already in.
    • If anything is open, please talk to Shyam.
  • Release Notes
    • We’ve committed the skelton for the notes. If you are expected to fill in the notes, please help fill it out.
    • We want to make a press release for 4.0. Please provide content for the PR.
      • Post about new features
      • New montioring related features
      • GD2 testing
      • Generally more content online that can be picked up by the press.
  • Containers images roll-out with packages
    • We want to provide container images for Gluster publicly with 4.0.
    • Humble offered to take care of container images for Gluster.
    • We should help test it since as soon as its out, people would start using it. Would tarnish our reputation if they don’t work.
    • [Kaushal] They should be run with Kubernetes or openshift, not directly. Kaushal will try to test, but cannot guarantee to spend time.
    • We should make the documentation clear. Amar will ask Humble to write the initial draft for docs.
  • Upgrade guide requirements
    • Specially, for node OS upgrade scenarios (CentOS6->7)
      • We will need to provide proper documentation.
      • EL6 will have client.
      • We could potentially provide packages via download.gluster.org for EL6 using Go compilers from software collections.
      • Need to cover possible cases like geo-rep in addition to basic volume types
      • There’s a few xlators we need to support. If there’s anything known as issues with Centos6, please raise concerns now.
  • Any other repository needs releases?
    • If you own a gluster project which needs a release for 4.0, please make sure you release in sync with 4.0 to clearly point out which version works with 4.0
    • gluster-block
    • glustermetrics
    • heketi?
    • Anything else? Check https://github.com/gluster/ and suggest the repository.
  • Go/NoGo panel for the release?
    • You have to review all patches taken in after branching and help with testing
    • Suggestion: Kaleb/Niels, Amar, Shyam, Kaushal, +2 other volunteers
    • [Amar]: We probably need one more person from GD2 team since there are a lot of changes and gd2 is our major feature for 2.0
  • RC0/1 testing and participation
    • Glusto: Nigel will run Glusto test runs.
    • Perf testing: We need volunteers especially since Meltdown/Spectre related questions will be around.
    • Other Tests(?): If someone can check line coverage, that’d be great. We need to establish a baseline for this.

• Infra update

  • regression migration to CentOS7
    • Going on smoothly (Tests are being run on CentOS7 partially already)
    • Majority is shifted to CentOS7.
    • Any machine with pattern ‘builder1NN.*’ are of centos7. Anything which is ‘slave’ would slowly go away.
    • ‘release’ branches needs to shift to centos7 later, as still some tests are failing.
    • Mostly should help by rebasing to latest on the release branch.
    • With migration to CentOS7, tests are taking only 3hr 30mins, instead of 6hrs. And also the intermitent failures are reduced to almost 0.
  • NetBSD
    • No response to our emails, taking that as ‘No one is interested to maintain it at the moment’

• Roundtable

• No updates

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Amar Tumballi (amarts)

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